A loopholes have been found in the Android version of WhatsApp. Most popular instant messaging applications can be made to crash this universal alias stopped abruptly just by sending a message.
It was found by two teenagers 17 years old from India, Harga Xiaomi Redmi 1s Indrajeet Bhuyan and Saurav Kar. The two men are also active in independent security research is creating a message containing 2000 characters (2KB) which consists of a set of special characters.
So a special message was sent and try to read by the recipient, WhatsApp application concerned will crash. WhatsApp thereafter be opened again, but will return to crash when chat contains a special message was opened.
"Users then have to delete the entire contents of the chat (delete conversations) with people (who sent a special message) is to be exchanging messages again to him," Bhuyan wrote in the e-mail quoted by Kompas Tekno from The Hacker News, Wednesday (9 / 12/2014).
The message "crash-makers" of Bhuyan and Kar claimed to have been tested and successfully make WhatsApp application crashes that runs on most versions of the Android OS, including Jellybean and Kitkat, as well as previous versions.
Compass Tekno had tried to send a message crafted Harga HP Xiaomi Bhuyan and Kar who was indeed correct recipient WhatsApp application crash.
Which can not be opened because it would result in a crash just chat with the sender of the message, while chat with others remain open. Similarly, the group did not seem affected by the receipt of a special message earlier.
It was found by two teenagers 17 years old from India, Harga Xiaomi Redmi 1s Indrajeet Bhuyan and Saurav Kar. The two men are also active in independent security research is creating a message containing 2000 characters (2KB) which consists of a set of special characters.
So a special message was sent and try to read by the recipient, WhatsApp application concerned will crash. WhatsApp thereafter be opened again, but will return to crash when chat contains a special message was opened.
"Users then have to delete the entire contents of the chat (delete conversations) with people (who sent a special message) is to be exchanging messages again to him," Bhuyan wrote in the e-mail quoted by Kompas Tekno from The Hacker News, Wednesday (9 / 12/2014).
The message "crash-makers" of Bhuyan and Kar claimed to have been tested and successfully make WhatsApp application crashes that runs on most versions of the Android OS, including Jellybean and Kitkat, as well as previous versions.
Compass Tekno had tried to send a message crafted Harga HP Xiaomi Bhuyan and Kar who was indeed correct recipient WhatsApp application crash.
Which can not be opened because it would result in a crash just chat with the sender of the message, while chat with others remain open. Similarly, the group did not seem affected by the receipt of a special message earlier.