Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 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 238 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 75 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 12 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 43 security issues (CVEs) across 9 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3440-1] poppler vulnerabilities

• [USN-3439-1] Ruby vulnerabilities

• [USN-3438-1] Git vulnerability

• [USN-3435-2] Firefox regression

• [USN-3437-1] OCaml vulnerability

• [USN-3430-2] Dnsmasq vulnerabilities

• [USN-3435-1] Firefox vulnerabilities

• [USN-3434-1] Libidn vulnerability

• [USN-3433-1] poppler vulnerabilities

• [USN-3430-1] Dnsmasq vulnerabilities

• [USN-3432-1] ca-certificates update

• [USN-3431-1] NSS vulnerability

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• spice-vdagent underway

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

Updates to Community Supported Packages

• Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) provided debdiffs for trusty-artful for git (LP: #1719740)

Development

• Reviews:
  • PR 3973/cgroup freezer in support of layouts
  • PR 3998/utilize new seccomp logging features
  • PR 3999/add detection of stale mount namespaces for layouts
  • PR 3872/preserve TMPDIR and HOSTALIASES across snap-confine invocation
  • PR 3958/add support for /home on NFS
  • PR 4008/create missing mountpoints in support of layouts
• submitted policy-updates-xxx PR 4002
• submitted small lttng PR 4003
• submitted small lxd PR 4004
• fscrypt 0.2.1 and 0.2.2 packaged

• libseccomp patches rebased to latest

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• Experts Have Sobering Message on Human Rights, Privacy for Security Pros

• Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system

• Software Heritage: a white paper

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20171002

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

More Info

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