--- title: 'Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 2017' description: '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 […]' url: https://canonical.com/blog/security-team-weekly-summary-october-12-2017?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 12 October 2017 # Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 2017 [livepatch](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/livepatch) [Public cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/public-cloud) [Security](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/security) [USN](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/usn) --- Share the article The [Security Team](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam) 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](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeNode). Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com](mailto:ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com) During the last week, the Ubuntu Security team: * Triaged 238 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 75 that applied to Ubuntu. * Published 12 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 43 security issues (CVEs) across 9 supported packages. ### Ubuntu Security Notices * [[USN-3440-1] poppler vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3440-1) * [[USN-3439-1] Ruby vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3439-1) * [[USN-3438-1] Git vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3438-1) * [[USN-3435-2] Firefox regression](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3435-2) * [[USN-3437-1] OCaml vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3437-1) * [[USN-3430-2] Dnsmasq vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3430-2) * [[USN-3435-1] Firefox vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3435-1) * [[USN-3434-1] Libidn vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3434-1) * [[USN-3433-1] poppler vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3433-1) * [[USN-3430-1] Dnsmasq vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3430-1) * [[USN-3432-1] ca-certificates update](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3432-1) * [[USN-3431-1] NSS vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3431-1) ### Bug Triage * Backlog:  ### Mainline Inclusion Requests * spice-vdagent underway * MIR backlog:  ### Updates to Community Supported Packages * Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) provided debdiffs for trusty-artful for git (LP: #1719740) ### Development * Reviews: + PR 3973/cgroup freezer in support of layouts + PR 3998/utilize new seccomp logging features + PR 3999/add detection of stale mount namespaces for layouts + PR 3872/preserve TMPDIR and HOSTALIASES across snap-confine invocation + PR 3958/add support for /home on NFS + PR 4008/create missing mountpoints in support of layouts * submitted policy-updates-xxx PR 4002 * submitted small lttng PR 4003 * submitted small lxd PR 4004 * fscrypt 0.2.1 and 0.2.2 packaged * [libseccomp patches rebased to latest](https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp/commit/355953c00ae34083f8acd89eac3360707e02dfaf#commitcomment-24741964) ### What the Security Team is Reading This Week * [Experts Have Sobering Message on Human Rights, Privacy for Security Pros](https://threatpost.com/experts-have-sobering-message-on-human-rights-privacy-for-security-pros/128271/) * [Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system](https://miyuki.github.io/2017/10/04/gcc-archaeology-1.html) * [Software Heritage: a white paper](https://www.softwareheritage.org/2017/09/22/software-heritage-a-white-paper/) ### Weekly Meeting * Log:  * Info:  ### More Info * [Ubuntu CVE Tracker](http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/) * [Ubuntu security notices](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/) * [Follow Ubuntu Security on Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/ubuntu_sec) * [How to help improve Ubuntu security](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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