Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon Feb 23rd 2015 16:36 UTC

• End: 17:04 UTC

• Where: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net

• Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

• jdstrand
• mdeslaur
• sbeattie
• tyhicks
• jjohansen
• sarnold
• chrisccoulson

Not present

Agenda

• Announcements

  • Chris Pollock provided a debdiff for lucid for ClamAV (LP: #1420819). Your work is very much appreciated and will keep Ubuntu users secure. Great job!

• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • jdstrand
    • snappy hardware access

    • update the SnappyConfinement spec

    • discuss overlayfs and AppArmor in regards to snappy

    • review tool changes
  • mdeslaur
    • weekly role: bug triage
    • publish Samba updates
    • publish e2fsprogs updates
    • publish ca-certificates updates
    • start on freetype updates
  • sbeattie
    • weekly role: cve triage
    • request sponsorship of apparmor and apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu updates in Vivid
    • testing gcc-5 packages that have pie by default set
  • tyhicks
    • weekly role: happy place
    • retest and publish ecryptfs-utils security updates
    • review and test an eCryptfs kernel fix
    • triage an eCryptfs data loss bug on btrfs
    • propose v2 of the libapparmor API changes

    • review some overlayfs related changes that went into 4.0-rc1 that may affect AppArmor

  • jjohansen
    • triage failing fd inheritance tests on krillin (LP: #1423810)
    • get verification of the LP: #1408833 fix and push it to the kernel team
    • v2 libapparmor API review

    • AppArmor kernel cleanups and upstreaming

  • sarnold
    • weekly role: community
    • several MIRs at the server team's request
    • test and publish Horizon security update
    • discussions about the ppc64-diag MIR
  • chriscoulson
    • Firefox and Thunderbird updates
    • Embargoed stuff
• Highlighted packages

  The Ubuntu Security team will highlight some community-supported packages that might be good candidates for updating and or triaging. If you would like to help Ubuntu and not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details and if you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-security. To find out other ways of helping out, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved. The highlighted packages for this week are:

  The Ubuntu Security team suggests that contributors look into merging Debian security updates in community-supported packages. If you would like to help Ubuntu but are not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See the available merges and SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details on preparing Ubuntu security updates. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-hardened. To find out other ways of helping out, please see SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved.

• Miscellaneous and Questions

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2015/ubuntu-meeting.2015-02-23-16.36.moin.txt