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How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution

awakened1712.github.io published 2019-10-0213 min read

In this blog post, I’m going to share about a double-free vulnerability that I discovered in WhatsApp for Android, and how I turned it into an RCE. I informed this to Facebook. Facebook acknowledged and patched it officially in WhatsApp version 2.19.244. Facebook reserved CVE-2019-11932 for this issue.
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