Kernel Team Summary: August 30, 2017
Canonical
on 30 August 2017
August 22 through August 28
Development (Artful / 17.10)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule
Important upcoming dates:
Beta 1 - Aug 31 (~1-2 days away) Final Beta - Sept 28 (~4 weeks away) Kernel Freeze - Oct 5 (~5 weeks away) Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~6 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.04 - Oct 19 (~7 weeks away)
We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kernel is currently based on Linux 4.12.9. The Artful staging kernel repository has been updated to 4.13-rc7. As a reminder, the Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.
Stable (Released & Supported)
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The latest SRU cycle has been completed successfully and the following kernel updates have been promoted to -updates:
trusty 3.13.0-129.178 xenial 4.4.0-93.116 zesty 4.10.0-33.37 trusty/lts-xenial 4.4.0-93.116~14.04.1 xenial/raspi2 4.4.0-1071.79 xenial/snapdragon 4.4.0-1073.78 xenial/aws 4.4.0-1032.41 xenial/gke 4.4.0-1028.28 xenial/hwe 4.10.0-33.37~16.04.1 zesty/raspi2 4.10.0-1016.19
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The following CVEs have been fixed by kernels promoted to -updates and -security:
Trusty (3.13.0-129.178)
- CVE-2017-1000112
- CVE-2017-1000111
- CVE-2016-7914
- CVE-2017-7616
- CVE-2017-7261
- CVE-2017-7273
- CVE-2017-7487
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CVE-2017-7495
Xenial (4.4.0-93.116)
- CVE-2017-1000112
- CVE-2017-1000111
- CVE-2017-7495
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CVE-2015-7837
Zesty (4.10.0-33.37)
- CVE-2017-1000112
- CVE-2017-1000111
- CVE-2017-7487
- The following kernel snap updates have been uploaded to the snap store:
xenial/pc-kernel 4.4.0.93.98 xenial/pi2-kernel 4.4.0.1071.71 xenial/dragonboard-kernel 4.4.0.1073.65 xenial/aws-kernel 4.4.0.1032.34 xenial/gke-kernel 4.4.0.1028.29
- Current cycle: 25-Aug through 16-Sep
25-Aug Last day for kernel commits for this cycle. 28-Aug - 02-Sep Kernel prep week. 03-Sep - 15-Sep Bug verification & Regression testing. 18-Sep Release to -updates.
- Next cycle: 15-Sep through 07-Oct
15-Sep Last day for kernel commits for this cycle. 18-Sep - 23-Sep Kernel prep week. 24-Sep - 06-Oct Bug verification & Regression testing. 09-Oct Release to -updates.
Misc
- The Canonical Kernel Team is Hiring!
- We’ve updated the bcc snap based on the Mon August 28th tip commit: a91ec385fd1c5da.
- http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712168
In Artful we enforce loading of only signed kernel modules under secure boot. We support self-signing of modules by enrolling a MOK key with shim and signing modules with that key. However a bug in our 4.12/4.13 kernels was causing the kernel to not use the MOK when validating signatures. A fix for that has been comitted and will be in the next artful-proposed kernel. - The current CVE status
- If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel
channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing
list at: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com.
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