Fortinet Discovers Amazon Kindle for PC Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Amazon's Kindle for PC.
Amazon's Kindle for PC is a free e-book reader and manager for Windows PCs. You can read e-books, manage your library and collections, and shop for new titles, just like what you can do with your handheld Kindle device, only in a layout optimized for Windows.
A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in Kindle for PC. The vulnerability can be triggered by a specifically-crafted mobi file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could grant an attacker remote code execution within the context of the application.



Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Amazon.Kindle.Memory.Corruption
Released Jun 23, 2016

Users should upgrade to Amazon Kindle for PC version 1.17.44170 which fixed this vulnerability.

Additional Information

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Amazon on June 10, 2016.

Amazon confirmed the vulnerability on June 22, 2016.

Amazon patched the vulnerability on September 14, 2016.


Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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