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CVE-2009-4324 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method exposed through Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. It affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3 and 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X. A specially crafted PDF can trigger a stale object reference during processing of multimedia content, including cases using ZLib-compressed streams, leading to an exploitable memory access violation. Successful exploitation can corrupt process memory and redirect execution flow, enabling arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability was exploited in the wild in December 2009 and was incorporated into exploit kits.
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A legacy Adobe Reader/Acrobat vulnerability referenced as exploited in early Lotus Blossom activity; specific technical details are not provided in the content.
A vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat media.newPlayer function used to deliver Bredolab through malicious exploit content.
An older vulnerability used in exploit kits according to the table.
An Adobe Reader/Flash vulnerability used by APT12 for code execution.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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