CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4248
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• amazon kindle touch (<= 5.1.1)
• amazon kindle touch 5.1.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656 US Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN www.kb.cert.org
- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7953cc553a4aaa36e880b25aa1a6bf6&t=175368 www.mobileread.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656 US Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN www.kb.cert.org
- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7953cc553a4aaa36e880b25aa1a6bf6&t=175368 www.mobileread.com