Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 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

• [USN-3407-1] PyJWT vulnerability

• [USN-3406-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3405-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3404-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

• [USN-3405-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3406-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3404-1] Linux kernel vulnerability

• [USN-3403-1] Ghostscript vulnerabilities

• [USN-3199-3] Python Crypto vulnerability

Bug Triage

• Backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+subscribedbugs

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• websockify, spice-html5 underway (LP: #1108935)

• MIR backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+assignedbugs?field.searchtext=%5BMIR%5D

Updates to Community Supported Packages

• 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

• Quick Guide: Prepare Your Systems for the Root KSK Rollover and DNSSEC KSK Rollover

• Harvard Gazette On internet privacy, be very afraid

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20170828

• Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Meeting

More Info

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