Meeting
Who: SecurityTeam
End: 18:30 UTC
Where: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Chaired By: JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)
Attendance
- jdstrand
- mdeslaur
- sbeattie
- micahg
- tyhicks
- jjohansen
Not present
Agenda
- Announcements
- Happy new year and welcome to our first meeting this year.
- Thanks
- Thanks to Mahyuddin Susanto (udienz) for his help on security updates for the community supported lighttpd (LP: #906792), cacti (LP: #906773) and squid3 (LP: #907690) packges on lucid and higher over the last weeks.
- Also would like to thank Ante Karamatić (ivoks) for providing a debdiff for lucid for phpmyadmin (LP: #913846)
- Thank you to Harald Jenny (harald-a-little-linux-box) for providing a debdiff for hardy for openswan (LP: #917754)
Your work is very much appreciated and will keep Ubuntu users secure. Great job!
- Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
- jdstrand
- short week, off Fri
- Weekly role: triage
- pending updates
- archive admin work
- audits
- mdeslaur
- Weekly role: happy place
- pending updates
- investigate several embargoed issues
- sbeattie
- Weekly role: community
- test openjdk regression update
- pending update
- gdb regression update testing
- apparmor work items
possibly help with AppArmor 2.7.1 release
- micahg
- Weekly role: happy place
- pending updates
- patch piloting
- finish rapid release testing
- back to webkit
- tyhicks
- possibly short week (jury duty)
- Weekly role: happy place
- fixed ecryptfs kernel and upstreamed them in time for the window
- pending updates
- jjohansen
- Weekly role: happy place
upstream AppArmor 2.7.1 release
- pending updates
AppArmor work items (mount rules)
- review ecryptfs patches
- testing of proper fix for /proc/pid/mem issue
- jdstrand
- 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
[jdstrand] People are talking quite a bit about the recent /proc/<pid>/mem handling in the kernel. We have released an update today (http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1336-1/)
- [micahg] speakers for UDW and I thought it might be nice if someone gave a talk on helping with security updates. jdstrand thought someone had already done this before and will followup with the team
- [sbeattie] nuclearbob proposed a couple of additional tags for qrt in bug 913818 and bug 913812, and I wanted to get the team's opinions on them
- [ACTION] sbeattie to follow up on qrt bugs from QA team
- [ACTION] jdstrand to make sure ubuntu-security gets QRT bug mail
Log
Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2012/ubuntu-meeting.2012-01-23-18.00.moin.txt