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CVE-2009-4324

7.8 HIGH Known exploited Published 2009-12-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Vulnerability — Adobe Acrobat and Reader

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader allows remote attackers to execute code via a crafted PDF file.

Added to KEV
2022-06-08
Remediation due
2022-06-22
Ransomware use
Unknown
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4324
Status
Analyzed
Published
2009-12-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-416

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.

Affected configurations

• adobe acrobat (>= 8.0 < 8.2) • adobe acrobat (>= 9.0 < 9.3) • adobe acrobat reader (>= 8.0 < 8.2) • adobe acrobat reader (>= 9.0 < 9.3) • suse linux enterprise debuginfo 11 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • opensuse opensuse 11.2 • suse linux enterprise 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References