Amazon Kindle e-reader prior to and including version 5.13.4 contains an Integer Overflow that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function CJBig2Image::expand() and results in a memory corruption that leads to code execution when parsing a crafted PDF book.
The product performs a calculation to determine how much memory to allocate, but an integer overflow can occur that causes less memory to be allocated than expected, leading to a buffer overflow.
The product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This occurs when an integer value is incremented to a value that is too large to store in the associated representation. When this occurs, the value may become a very small or negative number.
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| https://research.checkpoint.com/2021/i-can-take-over-your-kindle/ | third party advisory exploit |