Security Team Weekly Summary: December 21, 2017
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on 21 December 2017
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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 301 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 47 that applied to Ubuntu.
- Published 5 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 3 security issues (CVEs) across 7 supported packages.
Ubuntu Security Notices
Bug Triage
Mainline Inclusion Requests
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libteam underway (LP: #1392012)
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MIR backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+assignedbugs?field.searchtext=%5BMIR%5D
Development
- Disable squashfs fragments in snap
- prepared/tested/uploaded squashfs-tools fixes for 1555305 in bionic through trusty and did SRU paperwork
- PR 4387 – explicitly deny ~/.gnupg/random_seed in gpg-keys interface
- Submitted PR 4399 for rewrite snappy-app-dev in Go
- Created PR 4406 – interfaces/dbus: adjust slot policy for listen, accept and accept4 syscalls
- Reviews
- PR 4365 – wayland slot implementation
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