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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: 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 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.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:35 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-11932

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Oct 2019, 22:15 UTC

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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