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on 28 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 27, 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 296 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 81 that applied to Ubuntu.
  • Published 16 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 37 security issues (CVEs) across 18 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

Bug Triage

Mainline Inclusion Requests

Updates to Community Supported Packages

  • Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) provided debdiffs for trusty-zesty for jython (LP: #1714728)

Development

  • review
    • udisks2 PR 3931
    • snap-confile calls snap-update-ns PR 3621
    • bind mount relative to snap-confine PR 3956
    • snaps on NFS support
  • completed: create PR 3937 to use only ‘udevadm trigger –action=change’ instead of ‘udevadm control –reload-rules’
  • update snap-confine to unconditional add the nvidia devices to the device cgroup and rely only on apparmor for mediation
  • wrote/tested libseccomp-golang changes to complement the libseccomp changes: https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp-golang/pull/29

  • uploaded libseccomp, with the most minimal change needed to support snapd, to artful after receiving a Feature Freeze exception

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

Weekly Meeting

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