CVE-2019-11932
HIGHEPSS 99th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154867/Whatsapp-2.19.216-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158306/WhatsApp-android-gif-drawable-Double-Free.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/27
- https://awakened1712.github.io/hacking/hacking-whatsapp-gif-rce/
- https://gist.github.com/wdormann/874198c1bd29c7dd2157d9fc1d858263
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/commit/cc5b4f8e43463995a84efd594f89a21f906c2d20
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/pull/673
- https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/pull/673/commits/4944c92761e0a14f04868cbcf4f4e86fd4b7a4a9
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11932
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