WhatsApp BO critical security vulnerability

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 06:53:27AM +0000, XavierAP via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-hack-phone-call-voip-buffer-overflow/amp
[...]
> «According to Facebook's security advisory, the WhatsApp vulnerability
> stemmed from an extremely common type of bug known as a buffer
> overflow.»

Given the frequency and severity of buffer overflow and other
memory-related bugs, people need a serious wakeup call to migrate away
from languages that do not enforce bounds checking...


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