20160425

Meeting

  • Who: SecurityTeam

  • When: Mon Apr 25th 2016 16:38 UTC

  • End: 17:00 UTC

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

  • Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

  • mdeslaur
  • sbeattie
  • tyhicks
  • sarnold

  • ChrisCoulson

Not present

  • jdstrand
  • jjohansen

Agenda

  • Announcements
    • None
  • Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
    • mdeslaur
      • weekly role: cve triage
      • mysql updates
      • security updates
      • look into fixing update-manager bug (LP: #1574670)
    • sbeattie
      • weekly role: happy place
      • openjdk updates
      • pushing libc6 updates to -proposed
      • prepare wiki page to point packagers to regarding PIE build failures in Yakkety
      • fix some build failures due to PIE by default in Yakkety
    • tyhicks
      • weekly role: community
      • 16.10 work planning
      • help with PIE by default build failures
      • code reviews
      • look at recent snappy security related developments
    • sarnold
      • weekly role: bug triage

      • AppArmor patch reviews

    • ChrisCoulson

      • Oxide update
      • Firefox update
      • Oxide build system changes (LP: #1326697)
      • Oxide 1.16 release bugs
  • 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
    • doko asked what toolchain rebuilds are needed for PIE by default
      • he had already done ocaml and ghc
      • sbeattie says binutils and glibc will need rebuilding
    • sbeattie to give doko a list of packages with static builds of libraries that should be rebuilt for PIE by default

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2016/ubuntu-meeting.2016-04-25-16.38.moin.txt

MeetingLogs/Security/20160425 (last edited 2016-04-25 17:02:15 by tyhicks)