FKIE_CVE-2019-11932
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-10-03 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:13
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| * | |||
| android-gif-drawable_project | android-gif-drawable | * |
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