Security Team Weekly Summary: August 24, 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 195 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 42 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 13 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 54 security issues (CVEs) across 16 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3389-1] LibGD vulnerability

• [USN-3389-2] GD vulnerability

• [USN-3390-1] PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

• [USN-3391-1] Firefox vulnerabilities

• [USN-3392-1] Linux kernel regression

• [USN-3392-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) regression

• [USN-3391-2] Ubufox update

• [USN-3393-1] ClamAV vulnerabilities

• [USN-3394-1] libmspack vulnerabilities

• [USN-3395-1] c-ares vulnerability

• [USN-3393-2] ClamAV vulnerabilities

• [USN-3391-3] Firefox regression

• [USN-3396-1] OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• pcp (LP: #1700827) completed

• websockify (LP: #1108935) underway

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

Development

• snapd on Debian discussion

• add wayland interface spread test
• verify wayland interface with sway and weston
• reviews for snapd: solus, broadcom-asic-control interface, udev tagging, bluez implicit classic)
• continue/propose desktop, accessibility and desktop-input interfaces
• lots of discussion with snappy team regarding auto-connectable content snaps
• fix apparmor ‘ux’ warning with lxd snap
• miscellaneous policy updates (some in response to chromium snap call for testing)
• review tools updates for new interfaces

• AppArmor pull request for next (4.14)

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• Dwarf Fortress Starting During Upgrade

• Random Thoughts by Rich Salz

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20170814

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

More Info

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