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Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon Dec 19th 2011 18:00 UTC

• End: 18:30 UTC

• Where: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net

• Chaired By: JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)

Attendance

• jdstrand
• mdeslaur
• sbeattie
• micahg
• tyhicks
• kees

Not present

• jjohansen

Agenda

• Announcements
  • While the team is off next week, we will be monitoring lists, bugs and email for critical issues.
• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • jdstrand
    • short week again, off Thu and Fri and all next
    • Weekly role: community
    • pending updates
    • archive admin work
    • bug fixing as have time
  • mdeslaur
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • pending updates
    • fill in for jjohansen as needed wrt kernel publication
  • sbeattie
    • short week
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • pending update
    • work items as have time

    • AppArmor mailing list follow-ups

  • micahg
    • short week
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • pending updates
  • tyhicks
    • Weekly role: triager
    • pending updates
  • jjohansen
    • holiday
• Highlighted packages

  The Ubuntu Security team will highlight some community-supported packages that might be good candidates for updating and or triaging. If you would like to help Ubuntu and not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details and if you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-security. To find out other ways of helping out, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved. The highlighted packages for this week are:

  The Ubuntu Security team suggests that contributors look into merging Debian security updates in community-supported packages. If you would like to help Ubuntu but are not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See the available merges and SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details on preparing Ubuntu security updates. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-hardened. To find out other ways of helping out, please see SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved.

• Miscellaneous and Questions

  • kees brought up http://rcvalle.com/post/14261796328/more-on-exploiting-glibc-tzfile-read-integer-overflow as an area of research

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2011/ubuntu-meeting.2011-12-12-19.04.moin.txt