WhatsApp reveals safety bug that put customers’ knowledge in danger

WhatsApp has shared particulars of a essential “security bug” affecting its Android app that would permit attackers to remotely plant malware on customers’ telephones throughout video calls.

The messaging app talked about the main points of a essential vulnerability, generally known as CVE-2022-36934 with a severity ranking of 9.8 out of 10, described by WhatsApp as an integer overflow bug.

According to The Verge, the essential bug would permit an attacker to use a code error generally known as an integer overflow, letting them execute their very own code on a sufferer’s smartphone after sending a specifically crafted video name.

Remote code execution vulnerabilities are a key step in putting in malware, spyware and adware, or different malicious functions on a goal system, as they offer attackers a foot within the door that can be utilized to additional compromise the machine utilizing strategies like privilege escalation assaults.

The vulnerability is much like a 2019 bug, whereby WhatsApp blamed on Israeli spyware and adware maker NSO Group to focus on 1,400 victims’ telephones, together with journalists, human rights defenders, and different civilians.

At that point, the assault leveraged a bug in WhatsApp’s audio calling characteristic that allowed the caller to plant spyware and adware on a sufferer’s machine, no matter whether or not the decision was picked or not.

In the identical safety advisory replace, WhatsApp additionally disclosed this week particulars of one other vulnerability, CVE-2022-27492. The bug has been rated “high” in severity at 7.8 out of 10 which might let attackers execute code after sending a malicious video file.

As per The Verge, each of those vulnerabilities are patched in lately up to date variations of WhatsApp and will already be fastened in any set up of the app that’s set to robotically replace.

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