Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2018.011.20038 and previous versions, 2017.011.30079 and previous versions, and 2015.006.30417 and previous versions have a Double Free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.
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