20170911

Meeting

  • Who: SecurityTeam

  • When: Mon Sep 11th 2017 16:31 UTC

  • End: 16:50 UTC

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

  • Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

  • jdstrand
  • mdeslaur
  • sbeattie
  • tyhicks
  • jjohansen
  • sarnold
  • ratliff
  • leosilva

Not present

  • chrisccoulson

Agenda

  • Announcements

    • Gianfranco Costamagna provided a debdiff for xenial for check-all-the-things (LP: #1597245)

    • Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) provided a debdiff for xenial for karchive (LP: #1712948)

    • James Cowgill (jcowgill) provided debdiffs for xenial and zesty for mbedtls (LP: #1714640)

  • Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
    • jdstrand
      • update the review tools
        • new license yaml
        • better error reporting
        • misc fixes
      • snapd layouts feature PR reviews (PR 3621)
      • investigate device cgroup issues in snapd
      • misc snapd policy updates
      • start next steps of uid/gid work in snapd
    • mdeslaur
      • weekly role: happy place
      • post-vacation catchup
      • qemu updates
      • security updates
    • sbeattie
      • weekly role: happy place
      • embargoed issues
      • libxmls2 update
      • kernel CVE triage

      • QRT and AppArmor bugs to investigate

    • tyhicks
      • weekly role: happy place
      • attend Linux Security Summit
      • package fscrypt 0.2.1
      • test LSM stacking patches
      • attend to libsecomp PR once the review starts
    • jjohansen
      • attend Linux Plumbers and Linux Security Summit

        • prep presentations/discussions around AppArmor, LSM stacking, and LSM namespacing

    • sarnold
      • weekly role: bug triage

      • help with AppArmor kernel patch reviews

      • nghttp2 MIR
      • python elftools MIR

    • ChrisCoulson

      • finish updating rustc to 1.19
      • start on updating rustc to 1.20
      • thunderbird update
      • sponsor chromium-browser update
      • fix bugs for Firefox 56
        • menubar
        • FTBFS on Trusty
        • armhf issue
    • ratliff
      • weekly role: community
      • organizational and technical documentation
      • sprint prep
    • leosilva
      • weekly role: cve triage
      • gdk-pixbuf updates
      • pick up security updates
  • 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.2017-09-11-16.31.moin.txt

MeetingLogs/Security/20170911 (last edited 2017-09-11 16:51:26 by tyhicks)