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.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acrobat | Adobe | 8.0 (including) | 8.2 (excluding) |
| Acrobat | Adobe | 9.0 (including) | 9.3 (excluding) |
| Acrobat_reader | Adobe | 8.0 (including) | 8.2 (excluding) |
| Acrobat_reader | Adobe | 9.0 (including) | 9.3 (excluding) |
| Extras for RHEL 3 | RedHat | acroread-0:9.3-3 | * |
| Extras for RHEL 4 | RedHat | acroread-0:9.3-1.el4 | * |
| Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | RedHat | acroread-0:9.3-1.el5 | * |
| Acroread | Ubuntu | dapper | * |
| Acroread | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Acroread | Ubuntu | hardy | * |
| Acroread | Ubuntu | intrepid | * |
| Acroread | Ubuntu | jaunty | * |
| Acroread | Ubuntu | karmic | * |