A security bug was apparently found in Facebook-owned WhatsApp that could give attackers a chance to acquire access to a gadget and take information by utilizing a malicious GIF record. The risk originates from a double-free bug in WhatsApp, as per a researcher going by nickname Awakened, The Next Web reported Wednesday.
A double-free vulnerability is a memory defilement peculiarity that could crash an application or open up an exploit vector that attackers can abuse to access clients’ gadgets.
As indicated by Awakened’s post on GitHub, the flaw lived-in WhatsApp’s Gallery view implementation that is used to generate a preview of photos, recordings, and GIFs. Everything necessary to play out the attack is to make a malicious GIF, and wait for the client to open the WhatsApp display, the report included.
The bug also works for Android 8.1 and Android 9.0 OS yet doesn’t work for Android 8.0 and below. In the older Android forms, double-free could even now be activated.
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