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CVE-2012-4248 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656 CVEUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN CVE
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7953cc553a4aaa36e880b25aa1a6bf6&t=175368 CVE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656 [email protected]US Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN [email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-264Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
amazon kindle touch
<= 5.1.1
5.1.0

CPE

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

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-4248
NVD Published Date:
Aug 12, 2012
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2012-4248 Details - Not Deferred