CVE-2019-11932

high-risk

Published 2019-10-03

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.

Do I need to act?

70.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 30% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

1 public exploit available

47515

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 8.8/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Android-Gif-Drawable

Affected Vendors

Whatsapp Android-Gif-Drawable Project

References (18)

Third Party Advisory http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154867/Whatsapp-2.19.216-Remote-Code-Execut...

Third Party Advisory http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158306/WhatsApp-android-gif-drawable-Double...

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/cc5b4f8e43463995a84efd594...

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/4944c92761e0a14...

Third Party Advisory https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-11932