CVE-2009-4324
Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4324
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.
Severity
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HAffected Products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| - | - | n/a |
References
21 Links- http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/12/new_adobe_reader_and_acrobat_v.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547799
- http://www.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/repository/revisions/7881/entry/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_media_newplayer.rb
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-02.html
- http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2009/12/virustotal-httpwww.html
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-xmas-present
- http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20091214
Record Details
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