High severity · published Oct 3, 2019
CVE-2019-11932
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…
8.8
CVSS
44.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)44.5% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Android-gif-drawable · Android-gif-drawable Project
before 1.2.18 · source: NVD
WH
Whatsapp · Whatsapp
before 2.19.244 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11932
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11932
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154867/Whatsapp-2.19.216-Remote-Code-Execution.html
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158306/WhatsApp-android-gif-drawable-Double-Free.html
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/27
Exploit
https://awakened1712.github.io/hacking/hacking-whatsapp-gif-rce/
Third Party Advisory
https://gist.github.com/wdormann/874198c1bd29c7dd2157d9fc1d858263
Patch
https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable/commit/cc5b4f8e43463995a84efd594f89a21f906c2d20
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