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Signal for Android Attachment Bug

We recently received a great bug report from Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Markus Vervier, who identified a problem with the way that image, audio, and video attachments are processed by the Signal for Android code. We consider the implications of the bug to be low risk to Signal users, but have released an update for the Signal Android app that addresses the problems they reported. Read more...

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Signal for Android Attachment Bug
First reported
Sep 20, 2016 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Sep 20, 2016 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:50 UTC
Record ID
2cca73dc96cb9a09fad20a48939d55bae6dc0922135c22912f54b0f851bc0ece

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

No validated file hashes or network indicators are stored for this record.

Source observations

src_1b0ea7addf33a18b0f

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Sep 20, 2016 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:50 UTC

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