Security Team Weekly Summary: September 27, 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 296 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 81 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 16 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 37 security issues (CVEs) across 18 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3428-1] Emacs vulnerability

• [USN-3427-1] Emacs vulnerability

• [USN-3426-1] Samba vulnerabilities

• [USN-3414-2] QEMU regression

• [USN-3425-1] Apache HTTP Server vulnerability

• [USN-3424-1] libxml2 vulnerabilities

• [USN-3423-1] Linux kernel vulnerability

• [USN-3422-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3420-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3419-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3419-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3420-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3421-1] Libidn2 vulnerability

• [USN-3422-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3346-2] Bind regression

• [USN-3418-1] GDK-PixBuf vulnerabilities

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• python-pyelftools underway (LP: #1630073)

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

Updates to Community Supported Packages

• Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) provided debdiffs for trusty-zesty for jython (LP: #1714728)

Development

• review
  • udisks2 PR 3931
  • snap-confile calls snap-update-ns PR 3621
  • bind mount relative to snap-confine PR 3956
  • snaps on NFS support
• completed: create PR 3937 to use only ‘udevadm trigger –action=change’ instead of ‘udevadm control –reload-rules’
• update snap-confine to unconditional add the nvidia devices to the device cgroup and rely only on apparmor for mediation

• wrote/tested libseccomp-golang changes to complement the libseccomp changes: https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp-golang/pull/29

• uploaded libseccomp, with the most minimal change needed to support snapd, to artful after receiving a Feature Freeze exception

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• 2017 Linux Security Summit (Day 1)

• CLKSCREW: Exposing the perils of security-oblivious energy management

• Easy ssh into libvirt VMs and LXD containers

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20170918

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

More Info

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