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Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon May 22nd 2017 16:33 UTC

• End: 16:51 UTC

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

• Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

• sbeattie
• tyhicks
• jjohansen
• sarnold
• ratliff

Not present

• jdstrand
• mdeslaur
• chrisccoulson

Agenda

• Announcements

  • Jose Manuel Santamaria Lema (santa_) provided debdiffs for xenial and yakkety for kauth (LP: #1689759)

  • Rik Mills (acheronuk) provided debdiffs for xenial and yakkety for kde4libs (LP: #1689759)

  • v.naini provided debdiffs for zesty for kauth and kde4libs (LP: #1689759)

  • The Ubuntu Security Team has an open position. Learn more and apply at http://bit.ly/SecEngJob

• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • • jdstrand
      • finish overlayfs/apparmor/snaps investigation
      • snappy-debug work
        • fix to work with journald
        • update for snapd 2.25/2.26
      • gnome3/wayland/plasma interfaces
      • snappy forum discussions and PR reviews
      • miscellaneous snappy policy updates PR
      • embargoed issue
    • mdeslaur
      • weekly role: happy place
      • git updates
      • kde4libs updates
      • libytnef updates
      • gather qemu test results and then publish updates
        • cpaelzer is running tests
      • additional security updates as time allows
  • sbeattie
    • weekly role: happy place
    • embargoed issue
    • kernel CVE triage
    • kernel signoffs
    • pick up a new security update
    • QRT failures in kernel testing scripts for the 4.11 kernel
  • tyhicks
    • weekly role: community
    • !eCryptfs kernel patch review
    • cover for jdstrand on forum.snapcraft.io threads
    • internal tasks
    • seccomp patches
  • jjohansen

    • AppArmor QRT fix (LP: #1692543)

    • AppArmor kernel patch upstreaming

      • breaking patches into logical chunks
      • send out some RFCs
  • sarnold
    • weekly role: bug triage
    • xdelta3 mir

    • AppArmor patch review to support jjohansen's upstreaming work

    • pick up other MIRs

    • ChrisCoulson

      • thunderbird updates
        • upstream has not yet cut the release
      • re-automate the uploading of firefox debug symbols
      • internal issue
      • work on the Firefox start page
        • move away start.ubuntu.com
        • provide Ubuntu-specific design once we hear back
  • ratliff
    • weekly role: cve triage
    • ESM and Ubuntu Core update for rtmpdump
    • internal tasks
• 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.2017-05-22-16.33.moin.txt