Security Team Weekly Summary: August 17, 2017
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on 17 August 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities.
If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com
During the last week, the Ubuntu Security team:
- Triaged 537 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 134 that applied to Ubuntu.
- Published 16 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 36 security issues (CVEs) across 17 supported packages.
Ubuntu Security Notices
Bug Triage
Mainline Inclusion Requests
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http-parser completed (LP: #1638957)
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python-certifi completed (LP: #1708496)
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MIR backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+assignedbugs?field.searchtext=%5BMIR%5D
Updates to Community Supported Packages
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) provided debdiffs for trusty-zesty for vlc (LP: #1709420)
Development
- review tools updated for 2.27
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snapd interfaces documentation updated to include all interfaces
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Security policy and sandboxing updated
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miscellaneous snapd policy updates for master and 2.27.1
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finish wayland/XDG_RUNTIME_DIR investigation, submit wayland PR, submit/discuss snap-desktop-helpers PR, sync with desktop team for their next steps
- snapd PR interface reviews for avahi, opengl, optical-drive, physical-memory-observe, spi
What the Security Team is Reading This Week
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Parity’s Wallet Bug is not Alone by Emin Gün Sirer
Weekly Meeting
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