Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag

Re:Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag by dsl on Sunday December 11, 2011 @07:39AM (#3339941)

tl;dr: Don't play MP3s from untrusted sources until Amazon has a fix. (this is remote code execution, don't let the term "jailbreaking" candy coat it)

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Re:Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag by burgerbrain on Sunday December 11, 2011 @03:39PM (#3341003)

I believe this is technically local code execution, not remote. It's not like you can do this unless you have access to the device (the browser apparently doesn't allow it, and I can't imagine you can remotely make the device play an MP3).

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Re:Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag by vasco on Sunday December 11, 2011 @04:36PM (#3341171)

From what I understood you can download a song thinking its new hottest club hit and have your Kindle bricked.

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Re:Kindle Touch jail broken via ID3 Tag by burgerbrain on Sunday December 11, 2011 @04:43PM (#3341188)

Assuming arbitrary code can brick it, yes. That is my impression. That's still not "remote" though.

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