Crash Someone’s Whatsapp By Sending Lots Of Smileys

How To Crash Someone's Whatsapp


" InShort: Crash someone’s Whatsapp by sending lots of smiles to overload the memory byte handling of Whatsapp Messenger."

Recently a Vulnerability has been discovered in the wildly popular messaging app WhatsApp, which allows anyone to remotely crash WhatsApp just by sending a specially crafted message. If this exploit catches on, we’re likely looking at around 500 million users who could be affected by this vulnerability unless WhatsApp patches it up in haste. As this vulnerability can allow anyone to crash your whatsapp. As in this someone can crash whatsapp by sending multiple smileys on your number and you can send it to some number and the whatsapp of that smartphone will not able to handle that much packet at a time and the app got crash. And anyone can do those by following up the complete guide discussed below.

How To Crash Someone’s Whatsapp By Sending Lots Of Smileys

The method is very simple and you just need to send the multiple copies of smileys to crash someone’s Whatsapp. As in whatsapp you are only allowed to send around 6,500-6,600 characters and if you try to send as a smileys then the app wouldn’t handle that and will get crashed. So have a look on complete discussion below.

Steps to Test the Whastapp Crashing:

1. First of all attacker will need to send the smiley that display in the screenshot below and the smiley must be repeated around 4000 times and for that you can copy and paste and that's easy in Whatsapp web.
2. Now you just need to send it to the victim’s whatsapp number and when it tap on your message to open it then the Whatsapp of that device will got crash.

3. And now the target whatsapp will got crashed as the so many packets of the smileys will not get handled at victim’s app and the whatsapp will stop responding.

How To Secure Your Whatsapp From This Vulnerability

This vulnerability is already reported to Facebook to fix it as soon as possible and it can take some time to fix it out. And there must be some patch or Update that will be soon available to fix out this Flaw. But till now you can try some another method to get rid from this. And for that you can Clear Conversation of that contact from which the message had arrived. Otherwise it can even make your other chats to loss also.
You can also watch the video on YouTube on how to follow these steps:



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