Canonical
21 September 2017
Security Team Weekly Summary: September 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 489 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 152 that applied to Ubuntu.
- Published 6 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 122 security issues (CVEs) across 5 supported packages.
Bug Triage
Mainline Inclusion Requests
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completed nghttp2 (LP: #1687454)
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MIR backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+assignedbugs?field.searchtext=%5BMIR%5D
Development
- validate license and deprecate aliases in the review tools
- reviews
- broadcom-asic-control updates PR 3898
- bootstrap.c of snap-confine calling snap-update-ns PR 3621
- s390x and i386 socket snap-seccomp test failures fix (PR 3900)
- network interface update PR 3898
- ‘mount host system fonts in desktop interface’ PR 3889
- ‘enable partial apparmor support’ PR 3814
- ‘run secondary-arch tests via gcc-multilib’ PR 3901
- apparmor profile changes for snap-confine calling snap-update-ns PR 3621
- implement/submit PR 3919 for miscellaneous policy updates xxix
- implement/submit PR 3921 for miscellaneous policy updates xxix for 2.28
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policy update for org.freedesktop.DBus ListNames() PR 3928
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regression and manual testing of LSM stacking with AppArmor and SELinux
- fscrypt 0.2.1 packaged
- upload apparmor 2.11.0-2ubuntu17 for systemd stub resolver
- send up patch to upstream apparmor to drop /var/run alternation in favor of /run
