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CVE-2009-4324

CVE-2009-4324

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 81.9%● KEVCWE-416
In short

Adobe Reader and Acrobat have a flaw where they try to use data that has already been freed from memory when handling multimedia in PDF files. An attacker can craft a malicious PDF to trigger this and run any code they want on your computer.

Technical detail

Use-after-free vulnerability in Doc.media.newPlayer method triggered by specially crafted PDF files with ZLib compressed streams. Attack requires user to open malicious PDF; vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution with user privileges. Affects Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8.x and 9.x on Windows and Mac OS X.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, and 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file using ZLib compressed streams, as exploited in the wild in December 2009.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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