Use After Free Affecting acroread-plugin package, versions <0:9.3-1.el5


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
81.88% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ACROREADPLUGIN-9836121
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed14 Dec 2009

Introduced: 14 Dec 2009

CVE-2009-4324  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 acroread-plugin to version 0:9.3-1.el5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2010:0037.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream acroread-plugin package and not the acroread-plugin package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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