CVE-2009-4324 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free

What is CVE-2009-4324?

CVE-2009-4324 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 15 Dec 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

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.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4324?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise, Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo.

How do I fix CVE-2009-4324?

Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 22 Jun 2022.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2009-4324 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2009-4324 in the wild since at least 8 Jun 2022.

Public exploit code: 2 Metasploit modules and 3 Exploit-DB entries.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rv25-qx26-27xv.