Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability in Amazon Kindle Touch (CVE-2012-4248)

CVE-2012-4249 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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