Vulnerability detail
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High
CVE-2009-4324
PUBLISHEDUse-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...
- Vendor
- Adobe
- Product
- Reader and Acrobat
- Published
- Dec 15, 2009
- EPSS
- —
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 scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Exploitation status
Exploited in the wild
Recorded 2022-06-08 00:00:00 UTC · Source
SSVC decision points
- Exploitation
- active
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- total
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37331
- http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/12/new_adobe_reader_and_acrobat_v.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37690
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38138
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547799
- http://osvdb.org/60980
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/508357
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54747
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3518
- 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
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6795
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0060.html
- http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2009/12/virustotal-httpwww.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0103
- 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
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38215
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-013A.html
Known exploited vulnerability sources
Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.
| Source | Added |
|---|---|
| CISA | Jun 08, 2022 |
Scanner integrations
| Scanner | Reference | Detected |
|---|---|---|
| Metasploit | https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_media_newplayer.rb | Apr 29, 2025 |
Potential proof of concepts
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Timeline
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