CVE-2019-11932

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-11932
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-03 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-01 17:58:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Android-gif-drawable Project Android-gif-drawable All All All All
Application Android-gif-drawable Project Android-gif-drawable All All All All
Application Whatsapp Whatsapp All All All All
Application Whatsapp Whatsapp All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to RCE - Home MISC awakened1712.github.io
WhatsApp android-gif-drawable Double-Free ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Whatsapp 2.19.216 Remote Code Execution ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Double free problem by os97673 · Pull Request #673 · koral--/android-gif-drawable · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Vendor Advisory
Double free problem by os97673 · Pull Request #673 · koral--/android-gif-drawable · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
Do not realloc array if new raster size is 0. · koral--/android-gif-drawable@cc5b4f8 · GitHub MISC github.com
List of Android apps that include libpl_droidsonroids_gif.so - potentially vulnerable to CVE-2019-11932. Sorted by install count. · GitHub MISC gist.github.com Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: CVE-2019-11932 (double free in libpl_droidsonroids_gif) many apps vulnerable FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Facebook CONFIRM www.facebook.com Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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