Security researchers have discovered yet another way to crash your multi-touch device. This is now done with 19 lines of JavaScript Code and through a cleverly crafted website. The exploit “memory exhaustion remote denial of service vulnerability” affects Apple’s Mobile Safari web browser, which is a huge part of the popular devices.

All it takes for a website to have the malicious code is just to add the 19 lines of code and persuade the user to view it. This will crash the system and the device will immediately reboot.

This exploit was first discovered last month under version 1.1.2 of the firmware, but it is also present in 1.1.3. The only fix now is to disable JavaScript through the Safari section of the devices settings.

New iPhone and iPod touch Safari exploit discovered
[Via Engadget]