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Security Team Weekly Summary for 27 October 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 268 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 40 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 16 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 66 security issues (CVEs) across 16 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3466-1] systemd vulnerability

• [USN-3465-1] Irssi vulnerabilities

• [USN-3464-1] Wget vulnerabilities

• [USN-3463-1] Werkzeug vulnerability

• [USN-3425-2] Apache HTTP Server vulnerability

• [USN-3388-2] Subversion vulnerabilities

• [USN-3411-2] Bazaar vulnerability

• [USN-3462-1] Pacemaker vulnerabilities

• [USN-3454-2] libffi vulnerability

• [USN-3434-2] Libidn vulnerability

• [USN-3441-2] curl vulnerabilities

• [USN-3458-1] ICU vulnerability

• [USN-3461-1] NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities

• [USN-3460-1] WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities

• [USN-3459-1] MySQL vulnerabilities

• [USN-3457-1] curl vulnerability

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• spice-vdagent underway (LP: #1200296)

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

Development

• Participated in online Enabling AppArmor by default in Debian Sprint

• Refreshed fscrypt package for bionic, tested in a bionic VM, and uploaded it to bionic (pending approval)

• Created preliminary ssh and gpg keys interfaces PR 4100

• Investigated, prepared, tested, and submitted snap-confine apparmor fix PR 4098 and policy-updates-xxxi PR 4097

• Updated snappy-debug to suggest snapcraft preload plugin, tested and got it to stable

• Set up https://gitlab.com/apparmor

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• ROCA

• Bionic Beaver

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20171023

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

More Info

• Ubuntu CVE Tracker

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