Remote root exploit in Kindle Touch

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Submission + - Remote root exploit in Kindle Touch (mobileread.com)

Submitted by

tero

on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @11:32PM

tero writes: "Developers at MobileRead forums have discovered a rather strange "feature" in Kindle Touch browser. It seems the browser includes a scriptable plugin which allows websites to execute code on the device. Naturally someone has found a way to execute shell commands — and by the looks of it everything is running with root privileges.
This opens potential for "drive-by" jailbreaking — or turning the devices into a global 3G botnet.
According to the thread Amazon is working on a fix."

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