ASA-2019-00647 – Facebook WhatsApp: A stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted MP4 file


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00647

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00647, CVE-2019-11931

Title

A stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted MP4 file

Vendor(s)

Facebook

Product(s)

Facebook WhatsApp

Affected version(s)

Facebook WhatsApp Android versions prior to 2.19.274
Facebook WhatsApp iOS versions prior to 2.19.100
Facebook WhatsApp Enterprise Client versions prior to 2.25.3
Facebook WhatsApp Windows Phone versions before and including 2.18.368
Facebook WhatsApp Business for Android versions prior to 2.19.104
Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS versions prior to 2.19.100

Fixed version(s)

Facebook WhatsApp Android version 2.19.274
Facebook WhatsApp iOS version 2.19.100
Facebook WhatsApp Enterprise Client version 2.25.3
Facebook WhatsApp Business for Android version 2.19.104
Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS version 2.19.100

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow could be triggered in WhatsApp by sending a specially crafted MP4 file to a WhatsApp user. The issue was present in parsing the elementary stream metadata of an MP4 file and could result in a DoS or RCE.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Unknown

Reference(s)

CVE-2019-11931
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/CVE-2019-11931

Changelog – WhatsApp Business API – Documentation – Facebook for Developers
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/changelog

CVE-2019-11931
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11931

CVE-2019-11931
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11931

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Last modified: November 16, 2019

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