Ubuntu Wiki

Dumping ground for UDS ideas

KeesCook

• apport hooks (vs https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+packagebugs)

• review sponsorship process and compare to security-sponsorship

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LowerProcessCapabilities

• figure out better "screen lock does not work" bug triage process
• filesystem capabilities
• forwarding patches to debian BTS for security updates

• protecting select() users when RLIMIT_NOFILE > 1024 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10352

• using lxc
• process limit unlimited (LP: #391761)
• readdir_r stack smashing (LP: #392501)
• patch ssh to gain boolean to disable banner
• patch ssh to gain -Wl,-z,now
• patch samba to gain -Wl,-z,now

• upstream NX-emu patch http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/linus-es.txt

• mmap_min back into procps for reset-when-wine-goes-away?

• mmap_min sysctl drop from dosemu, wine http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr

• procps warns about syncookies
• verify RO+NX kernel patch in 2.6.32+

• review https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/ExecutableStacks

• review https://wiki.canonical.com/IS/SoftwareAudit

• deroot auditd
• grub2 + TPM

• http://people.canonical.com/~kees/nx-missing into pkg on server & desktop that has translations, preferably tied to x86/x86_64 arch.

• should /proc/kallsyms and /boot/System.map be root-only ?

JamieStrandboge

• Ubuntu and Debian security collaboration
• apparmor abstractions cleanup
• apparmor usability
• sort out apparmor upstream vs apparmor in ubuntu (is this still needed?)
• ufw (what does server team need/want)

MarcDeslauriers