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Meeting

  • Who: SecurityTeam

  • When: Mon Mar 23th 2015 16:36 UTC

  • End: 16:57 UTC

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

  • Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

  • jdstrand
  • mdeslaur
  • sbeattie
  • tyhicks
  • sarnold
  • chrisccoulson

Not present

  • jjohansen

Agenda

  • Announcements
    • Artur Rona (ari-tczew) provided a debdiff for jakarta-taglibs-standard in vivid (LP: #1433365)
  • Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
    • jdstrand
      • Polishing the Snappy frameworks RFC
      • Working on seccomp support in the snappy launcher
      • Organizing work around the Snappy security yaml
      • Embargoed item
    • mdeslaur
      • weekly role: bug triage
      • Testing and publishing pending updates
      • Preparing another update
    • sbeattie
      • weekly role: cve triage

      • AppArmor patch review

      • Apply fixes to the apparmor package
      • Continue testing of gcc-5 pie-on-amd64 packages
    • tyhicks
      • weekly role: happy place
      • Wrap up security review of the python-bcrypt MIR (LP: #1427861)
      • Review the initial snappy launcher code
      • Land the libapparmor policy cache API changes

      • Restart work on AppArmor kernel keyring mediation for user data encryption

      • Finish up the patches to fix bug #1430532 and send them out for review
      • Embargoed item
    • sarnold
      • weekly role: community

      • OpenStack security updates

      • Outstanding MIR requests
    • chriscoulson
      • Finish the arale-fixes branch and get it merged into trunk
      • Work on 'Persist permission request decisions for a session' (LP: #1428754)
      • Get Firefox buildable again in 12.04 (Mozilla bumped the GCC requirement to version 4.7)
  • 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

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2015/ubuntu-meeting.2015-03-23-16.36.moin.txt