A new message causes the blocking of whatsapp

It seems that there are some smartphone users who get very bored and dedicate their time to annoy others. A new message has appeared, which is causing WhatsApp to crash and even affect the entire operating system of the device where it is running.

New flaw in WhatsApp causes it to hang with a message

The message in question says "This is very interesting!" With a crying laugh emoji, this message can lock your device to the point that you have to restart it to continue using it. This message comes only a few days later, from a forwarded spam message, which was circulating in the surroundings, and which was blocking WhatsApp.

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The most annoying part is that you don't even have to click on anything, just receiving it can cause your application to crash and eventually crash. It is not so serious as to have to uninstall the application, but it is a nuisance if you have to restart both the application and the phone, especially if you need to send important messages to contacts.

According to a thread on Reddit, this problem is due to another bug on WhatsApp that will cause the app to crash, crash again in the launcher, or remove the entire mobile operating system. This error takes advantage of a specially crafted message that may manifest in the behavior mentioned above, thanks to tens of thousands of invisible "left to right" and "right to left" control characters located between the emoji and the ending quotation mark.

Of course, it is not the first time that WhatsApp has been affected by such failures, it has already been discovered that the application is likely to fail when it received 4, 000 faces according to a discovery towards the end of 2015.

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