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Security Team Weekly Summary for 23 June 2017

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team's weekly activities.

If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com

During the last week, the Ubuntu Security team:

• Triaged 212 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 65 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 20 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 21 security issues (CVEs) across 15 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3322-1] Exim vulnerability

• [USN-3323-1] GNU C Library vulnerability

• [USN-3311-2] libnl vulnerability

• [USN-3324-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3325-1] Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3326-1] Linux kernel

• [USN-3327-1] Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3328-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3329-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3330-1] Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3331-1] Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3332-1] Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3333-1] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3334-1] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3335-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3336-1] NSS vulnerability

• [USN-3337-1] Valgrind vulnerabilities

• [USN-3338-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3335-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

• [USN-3339-1] OpenVPN vulnerabilities

Bug Triage

• Backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+subscribedbugs

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• gdm3 underway (LP: #1686393)

• MIR backlog: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/+assignedbugs?field.searchtext=%5BMIR%5D

Development

• Updated CRT and review-tools for latest updates to base declaration
• Investigated snap access to keyring

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20170619

• Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Meeting

More Info

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