Adobe Reader crashes on duplicate pages

Adobe Reader will either give Error 14, or just crash out and quit if it comes across a PDF file with duplicate pages, for example:
/Kids [9 0 R 9 0 R]
By my reading of the standard, there is no explicit prohibition of this. Other PDF readers work ok. Is this an Adobe Reader bug, or have I misunderstood the standard?
(Motivation: I'm writing a PDF squeezer which coalesces groups of identical objects into one. This reduces the size of the ISO3200 PDF specification itself by about 20% -- lots of PDF producers seem to create duplicate objects. But if Adobe Reader crashes in this case, where else might it or other readers crash when there is unexpected aliasing of objects?)

Thanks. Here are the details:
If I load the file into the latest OS X Reader 11.0.09, and then scroll down to the second page, I see a wrongly-sized second page (a little white square), and then it crashes with what looks like following an inappropriate pointer into the zero page:
Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000086
I have built a minimal 1046 byte example (click 'download pdf'):
http://docdroid.net/huxj
The examples I have where it occurs in the wild are where blank or "this page is left intentionally blank" pages have been inserted in a document. Thus they lack content streams, or have identical content streams / resources. For example, I have a 40000 page output from a third party electricity bill generator. It shares content streams for all its blank pages, but has separate page objects. So, when my program squeezes it, it notices that all the /Page objects for those "blank" pages are identical, and coalesces them.
(side note: the same program seems to create /Contents arrays for its non-blank pages which have a common first element so as to share the background image, Adobe Reader doesn't mind several /Contents entries pointing to the same object.)

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