Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017
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on 7 September 2017
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 201 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 59 that applied to Ubuntu.
- Published 9 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 18 security issues (CVEs) across 11 supported packages.
Ubuntu Security Notices
Bug Triage
Mainline Inclusion Requests
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websockify, spice-html5 underway (LP: #1108935)
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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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Gianfranco Costamagna provided a debdiff for xenial for check-all-the-things (LP: #1597245)
Development
- Lots of snapd reviews: PR 3720 (solus), PR 3398 (XDG_ATA_DIRS for wayland), PR 3617 (big udev update), PR 3814 (opengl updates), PR 3812 (bluez interface on classic)
- snapd PR 3826 for iio
- follow-ups on PR 3805 (username/group instead of uid/gid)
- lots of review/discussion surrounding PR 3621 (snap-confine calling snap-update-ns)
- triage/fix snap-seccop testsuite failures on armhf and arm64
- begin investigation of snapd device cgroup regression
What the Security Team is Reading This Week
Weekly Meeting
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