CVE-2020-1906 vulnerability in WhatsApp Products
Published on October 6, 2020
A buffer overflow in WhatsApp for Android prior to v2.20.130 and WhatsApp Business for Android prior to v2.20.46 could have allowed an out-of-bounds write when processing malformed local videos with E-AC-3 audio streams.
Weakness Type
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
Products Associated with CVE-2020-1906
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Affected Versions
Facebook WhatsApp for Android:- Version 2.20.130 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 2.20.130 is affected.
- Version 2.20.46 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 2.20.46 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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