CVE-2009-4324 on CISA KEV

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 expl

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37331
• blogs.adobe.com — http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/12/new_adobe_reader_and_acrobat_v.html
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/37690
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/38138
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547799
• osvdb.org — http://osvdb.org/60980
• www.kb.cert.org — http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/508357
• exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54747
• www.vupen.com — http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3518
• www.metasploit.com — http://www.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/repository/revisions/7881/e…
• www.adobe.com — http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-02.html
• oval.cisecurity.org — https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3…
• www.redhat.com — http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0060.html
• contagiodump.blogspot.com — http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2009/12/virustotal-httpwww.html
• www.vupen.com — http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0103
• www.adobe.com — http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html
• www.symantec.com — http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-xmas-present
• www.shadowserver.org — http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20091214
• secunia.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/38215
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
• www.us-cert.gov — http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-013A.html

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

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06Detection

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