Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More

#1

Post by MCKapur » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:03 PM UTC

Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
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#2

Post by floatingatoll » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:07 PM UTC

18 minutes ago:

> Server side change is already reverted. The crash will vanish.

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#3

Post by MCKapur » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

Also: Tinder, Venmo, GrubHub (think of the botched deliveries heh), and more. An ongoing list here: https://twitter.com/aburninghilll/status/1258169688959352832

Also see: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373

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#4

Post by saagarjha » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:21 PM UTC

From the crash log, it looks like the server response it's getting back is missing a field that the SDK wants. Facebook should be able to fix this on their end?

Edit: from the issue it looks like they've done something, but people are still reporting crashes…

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#5

Post by lennykhazan » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:22 PM UTC

guess we're back to "move fast and break things"

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#6

Post by Austin_Conlon » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

lennykhazan wrote: post #5

guess we're back to "move fast and break things"

Move slowly with unstable infra.

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#7

Post by lucasar » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

You beat me by a couple of minutes. Dear Facebook: Please move slower and break fewer things. Thank you very much.

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#8

Post by a-wu » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:25 PM UTC

I hope that this incident and the Zoom incident will motivate app developers to remove the Facebook SDK when possible.

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#9

Post by MCKapur » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:25 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #4

From the crash log, it looks like the server response it's getting back is missing a field that the SDK wants. Facebook should be able to fix this on their end? Edit: from the issue it looks like they've done something, but people are still reporting crashes…

it will probably take time to propagate (edit: though i didn't expect this much time, still crashing!)

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#10

Post by jfim » Wed, May 06, 2020, 11:26 PM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #2

18 minutes ago: > Server side change is already reverted. The crash will vanish.

> Still crashing 30 minutes after your revert. Are you sure you reverted the right thing?