Updated WhatsApp on my iphone just now. The version I got was 2.19.50. According to the CVE it's still vulnerable. Unable to get 2.19.51 which is the first fixed version. Is this just me? Or is everyone else updating to a still-vulnerable version?
"Affected versions: ... WhatsApp for iOS prior to v2.19.51" from https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3568
The news outlets are all telling us to update, but until WhatsApp/Apple get their act together, there's no point. Worse still, people won't realise they need to do it again and will remain vulnerable indefinitely.
> You can now see stickers in full screen when you long press a notification
If that’s how we encourage critical security updates, I’ll suspect that Facebook themselves are behind all of this.
I assume the stickers thing truly was the most notable patch, and they didn’t want to scare people & tip off the attackers.
At least say something like “bug fixes”. Some kind of carrot to discourage me from thinking “Total waste of time and too many developers”.
"The issue affects WhatsApp for Android prior to v2.19.134"