Security Team Weekly Summary: August 24, 2017
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on 24 August 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 195 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 42 that applied to Ubuntu.
- Published 13 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 54 security issues (CVEs) across 16 supported packages.
Ubuntu Security Notices
Bug Triage
Mainline Inclusion Requests
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pcp (LP: #1700827) completed
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websockify (LP: #1108935) underway
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MIR backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+assignedbugs?field.searchtext=%5BMIR%5D
Development
- add wayland interface spread test
- verify wayland interface with sway and weston
- reviews for snapd: solus, broadcom-asic-control interface, udev tagging, bluez implicit classic)
- continue/propose desktop, accessibility and desktop-input interfaces
- lots of discussion with snappy team regarding auto-connectable content snaps
- fix apparmor ‘ux’ warning with lxd snap
- miscellaneous policy updates (some in response to chromium snap call for testing)
- review tools updates for new interfaces
What the Security Team is Reading This Week
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Random Thoughts by Rich Salz
Weekly Meeting
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