On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram. In this instance, there is no reason to believe users were impacted,' said WhatsApp spokesperson in a statement.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us Un indicio de que el celular se ha contaminado con un malware es que la aplicación de WhatsApp comienza a abrirse o cerrarse sin haber recibido esa orden por parte del usuario, también, puede. We make public, reports on potential issues we have fixed consistent with industry best practices. 'WhatsApp is constantly working to improve the security of our service. While CERT-In asked users to update their WhatsApp app, the instant messaging company said no users were affected by the latest vulnerability. Business for Android versions prior to 2.19.104 Business for iOS versions prior to 2.19.100 and Windows Phone versions before and including 2.18.368 were also impacted. It was also discovered on iOS version older than 2.19.100. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication from the victim and executes on downloading of malicious crafted MP4 file on the vicitims system,' said the agency.ĪLSO READ: WhatsApp vulnerabilities that put users' data at riskĪccording to Facebook, the security vulnerability was found on Android versions older than 2.19.274. This could trigger a buffer overflow condition leading to execution of arbitrary code by the attacker. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a special crafted MP4 file to the target system. 'A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in WhatsApp due to improper parsing of elementary metadata of an MP4 file.

The issue was present in parsing the elementary stream metadata of an MP4 file and could result in a DoS or RCE.'ĬERT-In, India's nodal agency for handling cyber-security related threats, also had similar findings about the vulnerability. Here's what Facebook described the vulnerability as: 'A stack-based buffer overflow could be triggered in WhatsApp by sending a specially crafted MP4 file to a WhatsApp user.

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