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CVE-2009-1862

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x through 9.1.2, and Adobe Flash Player 9.x through 9.0.159.0 and 10.x through 10.0.

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Last modified
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Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe Flash Player are affected. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF or SWF file, allowing arbitrary code execution or causing the software to crash.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x through 9.1.2, and Adobe Flash Player 9.x through 9.0.159.0 and 10.x through 10.0.22.87, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via (1) a crafted Flash application in a .pdf file or (2) a crafted .swf file, related to authplay.dll, as exploited in the wild in July 2009.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 20

sunsolve.sun.com

kb.cert.org

symantec.com

lists.apple.com

security.gentoo.org

support.apple.com

isc.sans.org

adobe.com

blogs.adobe.com

bugs.adobe.com

secunia.com

news.cnet.com

securityfocus.com