Security Team Weekly Summary: December 14, 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 213 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 65 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 15 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 16 security issues (CVEs) across 15 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3507-2] Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3511-1] Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3510-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3510-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3509-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3509-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3508-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3508-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3507-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3506-2] rsync vulnerabilities

• [USN-3506-1] rsync vulnerabilities

• [USN-3505-1] Linux firmware vulnerabilities

• [USN-3504-1] libxml2 vulnerability

• [USN-3498-2] curl vulnerability

• [USN-3503-1] Evince vulnerability

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• libteam underway (LP: #1392012)

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

Development

• review tools testsuite updates for resquashfs
• write-up processes for reviewing base snaps
• send up PR 4375 and PR 4375 (2.30) to add an app/hook-specific udev rule for hotplugging (fixes mir hotplug issue)
• debug chromium mknod issue with nvidia GPUs
• send up PR 4359 and PR 4360 (2.30) policy updates PRs

• add missing rule to upstream AppArmor fonts abstraction

• pickup PR 4100 and send up PR 4383 (2.30) for new ssh/gpg keys interfaces
• send up PR 4366 and PR 4367 (2.30) for small removable-media fix
• update review-tools for 2.30 interfaces
• discuss options for possible biometrics interface
• snapd reviews
  • PR 4365 – allow wayland socket and non-root sockets/wayland slot policy
  • PR 4140 – add an interface for gnome-online-accounts D-Bus service
  • PR 4369 – add write permission to optical-drive interface

• https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/proposal-to-disable-squashfs-fragments-in-snaps/3103

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• BlueSteal: Popping GATT Safes

• Debugging an evil Go runtime bug

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20171204

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

More Info

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