CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-11932
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
A double free vulnerability in the DDGifSlurp function in decoding.c in the android-gif-drawable library before version 1.2.18, as used in WhatsApp for Android before version 2.19.244 and many other Android applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service when the library is used to parse a specially crafted GIF image.
Affected configurations
• whatsapp whatsapp (< 2.19.244)
• android-gif-drawable project android-gif-drawable (< 1.2.18)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154867/Whatsapp-2.19.216-Remote-Code-Execution.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158306/WhatsApp-android-gif-drawable-Double-Free.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/27 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://awakened1712.github.io/hacking/hacking-whatsapp-gif-rce/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/wdormann/874198c1bd29c7dd2157d9fc1d858263 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/commit/cc5b4f8e43463995a84efd594f89a21f906c2d20 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/pull/673 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/pull/673/commits/4944c92761e0a14f04868cbcf4f4e86fd4b7a4a9 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11932 Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154867/Whatsapp-2.19.216-Remote-Code-Execution.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158306/WhatsApp-android-gif-drawable-Double-Free.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/27 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://awakened1712.github.io/hacking/hacking-whatsapp-gif-rce/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/wdormann/874198c1bd29c7dd2157d9fc1d858263 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/commit/cc5b4f8e43463995a84efd594f89a21f906c2d20 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/pull/673 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/pull/673/commits/4944c92761e0a14f04868cbcf4f4e86fd4b7a4a9 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11932 Third Party Advisory