--- title: 'Security Team Weekly Summary: September 14, 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-september-14-2017?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 14 September 2017 # Security Team Weekly Summary: September 14, 2017 --- 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 234 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 109 that applied to Ubuntu. * Published 6 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 15 security issues (CVEs) across 5 supported packages. ### Ubuntu Security Notices * [[USN-3412-1] file vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3412-1) * [[USN-3411-1] Bazaar vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3411-1) * [[USN-3410-2] GD library vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3410-2) * [[USN-3410-1] GD library vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3410-1) * [[USN-3409-1] FontForge vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3409-1) * [[USN-3408-1] Liblouis vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3408-1) ### Bug Triage * Backlog:  ### Mainline Inclusion Requests * completed websockify, spice-html5 underway (LP: #[1108935](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108935 "Bug")) * nghttp2 underway (LP: #[1687454](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1687454 "Bug")) * MIR backlog:  ### Updates to Community Supported Packages * Gianfranco Costamagna provided a debdiff for xenial for check-all-the-things (LP: #[1597245](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1597245 "Bug")) * Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) provided a debdiff for xenial for karchive (LP: #[1712948](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712948 "Bug")) * James Cowgill (jcowgill) provided debdiffs for xenial and zesty for mbedtls (LP: #[1714640](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714640 "Bug")) ### Call for Testing * Updates for WordPress are available in the security-proposed PPA and are just waiting for some testing before being published. Jump into #ubuntu-hardened on Freenode and ping the security team member on community duty if you are interested in helping test this community supported package. ### Development * Submitted PR for snapcraft-desktop-helpers for new desktop interfaces * [dbus interface documentation](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/the-dbus-interface/2038) * [Network management status and connectivity interfaces](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/network-management-status-and-connectivity-interfaces/2040) * [desktop interfaces documentation](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/the-desktop-interfaces/2042) ### What the Security Team is Reading This Week * [Equifax Breach Response Turns Dumpster Fire](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-breach-response-turns-dumpster-fire/) * [BootStomp](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-redini.pdf) ### 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) [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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