-[NSString initWithFormat:] crashes with more than 128 arguments

Originator:ChristoRogers
Number:rdar://34788702 Date Originated:October 3 2017, 10:17 PM JST
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS + SDK / Core Foundation Product Version:
Classification:Crash Reproducible:Always
 
Area:
Core Foundation

Summary:
-[NSString initWithFormat:] crashes when too many arguments are passed.

Steps to Reproduce:
Run this code:

```
[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@", @"0", @"1", @"2", @"3", @"4", @"5", @"6", @"7", @"8", @"9", @"10", @"11", @"12", @"13", @"14", @"15", @"16", @"17", @"18", @"19", @"20", @"21", @"22", @"23", @"24", @"25", @"26", @"27", @"28", @"29", @"30", @"31", @"32", @"33", @"34", @"35", @"36", @"37", @"38", @"39", @"40", @"41", @"42", @"43", @"44", @"45", @"46", @"47", @"48", @"49", @"50", @"51", @"52", @"53", @"54", @"55", @"56", @"57", @"58", @"59", @"60", @"61", @"62", @"63", @"64", @"65", @"66", @"67", @"68", @"69", @"70", @"71", @"72", @"73", @"74", @"75", @"76", @"77", @"78", @"79", @"80", @"81", @"82", @"83", @"84", @"85", @"86", @"87", @"88", @"89", @"90", @"91", @"92", @"93", @"94", @"95", @"96", @"97", @"98", @"99", @"100", @"101", @"102", @"103", @"104", @"105", @"106", @"107", @"108", @"109", @"110", @"111", @"112", @"113", @"114", @"115", @"116", @"117", @"118", @"119", @"120", @"121", @"122", @"123", @"124", @"125", @"126", @"127", @"128"];
```

Expected Results:
No crashes.

Actual Results:
Usually EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x10a44ff82) in __CFStringAppendFormatCore, called from _CFStringCreateWithFormatAndArgumentsAux2

If you're lucky, it will just put (null) in for that last element.

Version/Build:
At least going back to iOS 9.3 up to iOS 11.0 (don't remember if I saw 11.0.1 in our crash logs). Crashes on macOS 10.13 as well.

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