An extremely dangerous bug has been fixed in a recent update for whatsapp. According to the company, the malfunction was classified as gravity 9.8 (out of total ten). it critical error in overflow – can be tracked CVE-2022-36934. This means that the application tried to execute a computational process, but did not have allocated memory space, which led to the spread of data and overwriting other parts of the system memory with malicious code. Through this loophole, attackers will be able to activate malware remotely by mobile phone during video call.

Although no further details about the situation have been released, malicious bytes, The digital security company said through its own technical analysis that the bug could be found in a component of WhatsApp called “Video call handler“. Once activated, a person can take full control of the instant messaging app installed on the victim’s device.

WhatsApp representatives did not confirm whether there is evidence of active exploitation, or if internal employees discovered a breach. in 2019a similar fault classified equally as “criticism“, was responsible for allowing the spyware maker NSO Group infect smartphones 1400 people Among them are human rights activists, journalists and civilians. At that time, a vulnerability found in the audio call feature was exploited, which did not depend on whether the call was answered or rejected.

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WhatsApp users on iOS fear another highly rated vulnerability

Also this week in whatsapp shared another violation, this time named as CVE-2022-27492. classified with high gravityon a scale 7.8 out of 10allowed hackers to execute potentially malicious code after downloading a compromised video file to devices with iOSsmartphone operating system Apple. Peter Arnzintelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, said:

“Processing unknown input results in a memory corruption vulnerability. To exploit this vulnerability, attackers would need to delete the video file created in the user’s WhatsApp and convince the user to play it.”

It is worth noting that limitations explained in this question have been fixed in the latest versions of WhatsApp for Android and iOS. this is extremely important update software AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

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