Now You Can crash your friends whatsapp by sending about 4,000 smileys to a target, the WhatApp app Start's to slow down and crashes due to "buffer overflow". This flaw targets both the desktop and mobile apps.
How To crash whatsapp by sending smileys?
In the WhatsApp Web app, you are allowed to send a message with about 6,500-6,600 characters.
But, after typing about 4,000-4,200 smileys, the browser/app starts to slow down. As you type more and more smiley faces, WhatsApp crashes when you type and send."….so it crashes while we type and send and in mobile too when it receives it overflows the buffer and it crashes,
This WhatsApp smiley bug affects Firefox, Opera,and Chrome PC browsers, along with iPhone and Android OS.
Note: Indrajeet Bhuyan, an independent researcher, has reported a new bug in WhatsApp that could allow anyone to remotely crash most popular messaging app just by sending nearly 4000 emojis to the target user, thereby affecting up to 1 Billion users.
How to Protect Yourself?
Bhuyan told that he had reported the WhatsApp crash bug to Facebook. However, before the company patches the issue, there is a simple way out.
If you become a victim of such message on WhatsApp, just open your messenger and delete the whole conversation with the sender.
However, remember, if you have kept some records of your chat with that particular friend, you’ll end up losing them all
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