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Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon Feb 6th 2017 16:30 UTC

• End: 16:44 UTC

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

• Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

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

Not present

• jjohansen

Agenda

• Announcements
  • none
• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • jdstrand
    • snappy PR reviews
      • many for Personal
    • better leverage seccomp arg filtering in snappy confinement policy
      • 6 PRs already submitted but more coming
    • various other Snappy policy updates
    • some misc review tools changes
  • mdeslaur
    • weekly role: happy place
    • security updates
  • sbeattie
    • weekly role: happy place
    • security updates
  • tyhicks
    • weekly role: community

    • prepare AppArmor SRU for bug 1661406

    • upload AppArmor 2.11.0 to zesty

      • must workaround an AppArmor utils bug (LP: #1628286) first

    • followup on seccomp kernel patches
      • possibly finish off the work for libseccomp support

    • libvirt AppArmor research around what it would take to dynamically update policy as disk image path changes

    • jjohansen

      • AppArmor bugs

        • flock not mediated with 'k' (LP: #1658219)

        • disconnected path when using filesystem namespaces (LP: #1656121)

      • clean up and send xenial/yakkety AppArmor patches to the kernel team

      • revise dconf/gsettings mediation patches after sync with desktop team

      • reply to tetsuo and finish kernel patch around AppArmor data for a task

      • preparing next batch of AppArmor kernel patches to upstream

        • maybe the changes to securityfs
  • sarnold
    • weekly role: bug triage
    • finish up libapache2-mod-auth-mellon MIR
    • pick up another MIR

  • ChrisCoulson

    • oxide updates
    • firefox update

      • includes regression fix (LP: #1659922)

    • sponsor chromium-browser updates
    • firefox crashing on arm is causing FTBFS
    • firefox/gcc-4.9 on trusty isn't working

    • https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oxide/+spec/ubuntu-webview-implementation

      • Add JS dialogs to UbuntuWebView (LP: #1637195)

      • Add touch selection handles and quick menu to UbuntuWebView (LP: #1638852)

  • ratliff
    • weekly role: CVE triage
    • security updates for ubuntu-core 15.04 and Touch
• 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
  • none

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-02-06-16.30.moin.txt