Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1593-1

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Raphael Geissert discovered that the debdiff.pl tool incorrectly handled shell metacharacters. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted filename, a remote attacher could possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-0212) Raphael Geissert discovered that the dscverify tool incorrectly escaped arguments to external commands. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote attacher could possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2240) Raphael Geissert discovered that the dget tool incorrectly performed input validation. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote attacher could delete arbitrary files. (CVE-2012-2241) Raphael Geissert discovered that the dget tool incorrectly escaped arguments to external commands. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote attacher could possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.04. (CVE-2012-2242) Jim Meyering discovered that the annotate-output tool incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could use this flaw to alter files being processed by the annotate-output tool. On Ubuntu 11.04 and later, this issue was mitigated by the Yama kernel symlink restrictions. (CVE-2012-3500)

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