20180226

Meeting

  • Who: SecurityTeam

  • When: Mon Feb 26th 2018 16:33 UTC

  • End: 16:53 UTC

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

  • Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

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

Not present

  • jjohansen
  • chrisccoulson

Agenda

  • Announcements
    • Generalist role rotation
      • CVE Triage: mdeslaur, Bug Triage: leosilva, Community: sarnold, Happy Place: ratliff, sbeattie

    • An all new version of the USN website will be deployed today

    • Simon Deziel (sdeziel) provided a debdiff for artful for unbound (LP: #1723900)

  • Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
    • jdstrand
      • snapd PR reviews
        • layouts
        • portals
        • steam-support interface
      • stric mode snaps on livecd
      • miscellaneous policy investigations and updates
      • prepare for sprint
      • lxd snap regression wrt confinement
      • create screencast interface
    • mdeslaur
      • sensible-utils updates
      • embargoed issue
    • sbeattie
      • final testing of enabling retpoline by default in 18.04
        • gcc-8, gcc-7, gcc-6, and gcc-5
      • add the documentation bits to a patch to hardening retpoline options to dpkg, to support hardening=[+-]retpoline and submit to debian
      • gcc retpoline backports for 12.04 ESM
    • tyhicks
      • address issues found in the new USN website once it goes live
      • finalize LSM stacking demo
      • embargoed issue
      • involved in the retpoline by default discussions/, uploads, etc.
    • sarnold

      • AppArmor patch review

      • brotli MIR
      • respond to openjpeg2 bugs stemming from MIR review
    • ratliff
      • sprint prep
      • KPI improvements
      • improve tutorial
    • leosilva
      • qpdf updates
      • additional security updates
  • Highlighted packages

    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/2018/ubuntu-meeting.2018-02-26-16.33.moin.txt

MeetingLogs/Security/20180226 (last edited 2018-02-26 16:57:50 by tyhicks)