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Facebook has patched a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-11931) affecting various versions of its popular WhatsApp Messenger app and is urging users to update as soon as possible. About the patched flaw (CVE-2019-11931) CVE-2019-11931 is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that could be triggered in WhatsApp by sending a specially crafted MP4 file to a WhatsApp user. “The issue was present in parsing the elementary stream metadata of an MP4 file and could result in a DoS … More → The post WhatsApp RCE flaw can be exploited by sending malicious MP4 files appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2019-11-14 | CVE-2019-11931 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Whatsapp A stack-based buffer overflow could be triggered in WhatsApp by sending a specially crafted MP4 file to a WhatsApp user. | 6.8 |