Security Team Weekly Summary: November 2, 2017
Canonical
on 2 November 2017
Tags: CVE , livepatch , Ubuntu , Ubuntu Advantage , Ubuntu Advantage for infrastructure , USN
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities.
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During the last week, the Ubuntu Security team:
- Triaged 268 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 40 that applied to Ubuntu.
- Published 16 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 66 security issues (CVEs) across 16 supported packages.
Ubuntu Security Notices
Bug Triage
Mainline Inclusion Requests
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spice-vdagent underway (LP: #1200296)
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MIR backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+assignedbugs?field.searchtext=%5BMIR%5D
Development
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Participated in online Enabling AppArmor by default in Debian Sprint
- Refreshed fscrypt package for bionic, tested in a bionic VM, and uploaded it to bionic (pending approval)
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performed reviews in support of layouts: PR 4008, PR 3965. Lots of technical discussion regarding use of overlayfs
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performed review of xdg-settings support: PR 4073
- discuss autostart desktop files design options
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performed review of USB interface number: PR 4040
- performed review of several libvirt patches from server team
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performed review of making @unrestricted truly unrestricted: PR 4054
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Investigated, prepared, tested, and submitted snap-confine apparmor fix PR 4098 and policy-updates-xxxi PR 4097
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Investigated, prepared preliminary ssh-keys, ssh-public-keys, gpg-keys and gpp-public-keys interfaces: PR 4100
- Continue various snappy-debug improvements based on sprint feedback (we should be able to now always suggest using it instead of looking at raw log files):
- only show AVC or audit violations, not both
- cache rules files for big performance improvement
- preliminary DBus recommendations (need to convert to logprof, but now we display DBus violations and suggest a few things)
- add suggestions for signals and ptrace
- add suggestions for mpris and dbus slots
- suggest snapcraft preload plugin
- split out classic and core policy and choose based on which device snappy-debug is running on
- various small bug fixes
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Set up https://gitlab.com/apparmor
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Contributed seccomp documentation for Linux 4.14 changes to the man-pages project: mailing list
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Contributed libseccomp-golang bindings for libseccomp’s new API level feature: PR 29
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