A critical security flaw has been identified by WhatsApp in its application.
A problem that the American giant has corrected.
According to the Techcrunch site, this flaw allowed hackers to install malicious software in the smartphone of their victims during video calls.
More technically, the bug is based on integer overflow.
The latter occurs when a calculation operation is performed without sufficient space in memory.
Impact: Data overflows and other parts of system memory are overwritten with potentially malicious code
Severity score of 9.8/10
Listed as CVE-2022-36934 by the US Vulnerability Database, it received a severity rating of 9.8/10.
According to WhatsApp spokesperson Joshua Breckman, the bug was discovered internally and "no evidence of exploitation" was found.
WhatsApp did not provide any further information.
On its site, the messaging clarified that the flaw affected Android and iOS users.
Specifically, the problem affects versions of WhatsApp that precede 2.22.16.12, which is from this summer.
The only solution to avoid being affected is therefore to update your application.
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