Security Team Weekly Summary: December 21, 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 301 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 47 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 5 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 3 security issues (CVEs) across 7 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3512-1] OpenSSL vulnerabilities

• [USN-3513-1] libxml2 vulnerability

• [USN-3513-2] libxml2 vulnerability

• [USN-3509-3] Linux kernel regression

• [USN-3509-4] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) regression

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• libteam underway (LP: #1392012)

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

Development

• Disable squashfs fragments in snap

  • https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4396

  • https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/1805

  • prepared/tested/uploaded squashfs-tools fixes for 1555305 in bionic through trusty and did SRU paperwork
• PR 4387 – explicitly deny ~/.gnupg/random_seed in gpg-keys interface
• Submitted PR 4399 for rewrite snappy-app-dev in Go
• Created PR 4406 – interfaces/dbus: adjust slot policy for listen, accept and accept4 syscalls
• Reviews
  • PR 4365 – wayland slot implementation

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• Internet Chemotherapy

• Using BGP to Acquire Bogus TLS Certificates

• Cyber Security Framework DRAFT

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20171211

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

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