20170818

Security Team Weekly Summary for 18 August 2017

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

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During the last week, the Ubuntu Security team:

  • Triaged 195 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 42 that applied to Ubuntu.
  • Published 13 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 54 security issues (CVEs) across 16 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

Bug Triage

Mainline Inclusion Requests

Development

  • snapd on Debian discussion

  • add wayland interface spread test
  • verify wayland interface with sway and weston
  • reviews for snapd: solus, broadcom-asic-control interface, udev tagging, bluez implicit classic)
  • continue/propose desktop, accessibility and desktop-input interfaces
  • lots of discussion with snappy team regarding auto-connectable content snaps
  • fix apparmor 'ux' warning with lxd snap
  • miscellaneous policy updates (some in response to chromium snap call for testing)
  • review tools updates for new interfaces

  • AppArmor pull request for next (4.14)

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

Weekly Meeting

More Info

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