High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11932
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2019-11932
Complete source record
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