Security Team Weekly Summary: December 7, 2017

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

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Due to the holiday last week, there was no weekly report, so this report covers the previous two weeks. During the last two weeks, the Ubuntu Security team:

• Triaged 379 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 74 that applied to Ubuntu.
• Published 32 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 70 security issues (CVEs) across 34 supported packages.

Ubuntu Security Notices

• [USN-3477-3] Firefox regressions

• [USN-3590-1] Thunderbird vulnerabilities]

• [USN-3501-1] libxcursor vulnerability

• [USN-3500-1] libXfont vulnerability

• [USN-3499-1] Exim vulnerability

• [USN-3498-1] curl vulnerabilities

• [USN-3497-1] OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

• [USN-3496-3] Python vulnerability

• [USN-3496-2] Python vulnerability

• [USN-3496-1] Python vulnerability

• [USN-3477-2] Firefox regression

• [USN-3476-2] postgresql-common vulnerabilities

• [USN-3495-1] OptiPNG vulnerability

• [USN-3494-1] XML::LibXML vulnerability

• [USN-3493-1] Exim vulnerability

• [USN-3492-1] LibRaw vulnerabilities

• [USN-3491-1] ldns vulnerabilities

• [USN-3489-2] Berkeley DB vulnerability

• [USN-3489-1] Berkeley DB vulnerability

• [USN-3485-3] Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3484-3] Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerability

• [USN-3488-1] Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerability

• [USN-3487-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3486-2] Samba vulnerability

• [USN-3483-2] procmail vulnerability

• [USN-3486-1] Samba vulnerabilities

• [USN-3485-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

• [USN-3484-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

• [USN-3485-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

• [USN-3484-1] Linux kernel vulnerability

• [USN-3480-2] Apport regressions

• [USN-3483-1] procmail vulnerability

Bug Triage

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

Mainline Inclusion Requests

• spice-vdagent completed (LP: #1200296)

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

Development

• add max compressed size check to the review tools
• adjust review-tools runtime errors output for store (final)
• adjust review-tools for redflagged base snap overrides
• adjust review-tools for resquashing with fakeroot
• upload a couple of bad snaps to test r945 of the review tools in the store. The store is correctly not auto-approving, but is also not handling them right. File LP: #1733699
• investigate SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_INFO=1 with snapcraft cleanbuild and attempt rebuilds
• respond to feedback in PR 4245, close and resubmit as PR 4255 (interfaces/screen-inhibit-control: fix case in screen inhibit control)
• investigate reported godot issue. Send up PR 4257 (interfaces/opengl: also allow ‘revision’ on /sys/devices/pci…)
• investigation of potential biometrics-observe interface
• snapd reviews
  • PR 4258: fix unmounting on systems without rshared
  • PR 4170: cmd/snap-update-ns: add planWritableMimic
  • PR 4306 (use #include instead of bare ‘include’)
  • PR 4224 – cmd/snap-update-ns: teach update logic to handle synthetic changes
  • PR 4312 – ‘create mount targe for lib32,vulkan on demand
  • PR 4323 – interfaces: add gpio-memory-control interface
  • PR 4325 (add test for netlink-connector interface) and investigate NETLINK_CONNECTOR denials
  • review design of PR 4329 – discard stale mountspaces (v2)

• finalized squashfs fix for 1555305 and submitted it upstream (https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/mailman/message/36140758/)

• investigation into users 16.04 apparmor issues with tomcat

What the Security Team is Reading This Week

• Git hash function transition

• Cheat Sheets

Weekly Meeting

• Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20171127

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

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