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Security Team Weekly Summary for 16 February 2018

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 551 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 60 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 10 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 19 security issues (CVEs) across 10 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3573-1] Quagga vulnerabilities

• [USN-3572-1] FreeType vulnerability

• [USN-3571-1] Erlang vulnerabilities

• [USN-3570-1] AdvanceCOMP vulnerability

• [USN-3569-1] libvorbis vulnerabilities

• [USN-3544-2] Firefox regressions

• [USN-3568-1] WavPack vulnerabilities

• [USN-3567-1] Puppet vulnerability

• [USN-3566-1] PHP vulnerabilities

• [USN-3565-1] Exim vulnerability

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• openjpeg2 (LP: #711061) underway

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

Development

• Submitted PR 4683 and PR 4685 for 'interfaces/time-control,netlink-audit: adjust for util-linux compiled with libaudit'
• Submit PR 4687 for snapd policy updates
• Reviews
  • PR 4652 - tests: fix spread test failures on 18.04
  • PR 4663 - allow MM to access login1
  • PR 4694 - small re-factor for upcoming per-user mounts (portals)
  • PR 4664 - ensure snap-confine profile for reexec is current
  • PR 4670 - add support for per-user mount entries (portals)
  • PR 4659 - improve the version validator's error messages
• LSM stacking demo
• Respun the gcc-4.8/trusty package
• Participated in CNA Summit

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• Spectre Mitigations in Microsoft's C/C++ Compiler

• A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20180212

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

More Info

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