CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4249
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The Amazon Lab126 com.lab126.system sendEvent implementation on the Kindle Touch before 5.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string, as demonstrated by using lipc-set-prop to set an LIPC property, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4248.
Affected configurations
• amazon kindle touch 5.1.0
• amazon kindle touch 5.1.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656 US Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN US Government Resource
- 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 US Government Resource
- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7953cc553a4aaa36e880b25aa1a6bf6&t=175368 www.mobileread.com