CVE-2012-4248

The Amazon Kindle Touch before 5.1.2 does not properly restrict access to the libkindleplugin.so NPAPI plugin interface, which might allow remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors involving the (1) dev.log, (2) lipc.set, (3) lipc.get, or (4) todo.scheduleItems method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4249.

CVSS v2.0 9.3 HIGH

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CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656	US Government Resource
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7953cc553a4aaa36e880b25aa1a6bf6&t=175368
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:h:amazon:kindle_touch::::::::
	cpe:2.3:h:amazon:kindle_touch:5.1.0:::::::*

Information

Published : 2012-08-12 10:55

Updated : 2012-08-12 21:00

NVD link : CVE-2012-4248

Mitre link : CVE-2012-4248

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-264

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Products Affected

amazon

kindle_touch

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