--- title: 'Security Team Weekly Summary: September 21, 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-21-2017 --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 21 September 2017 # Security Team Weekly Summary: September 21, 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 489 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 152 that applied to Ubuntu. * Published 6 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 122 security issues (CVEs) across 5 supported packages. ### * [[USN-3416-1] Thunderbird vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3416-1) * [[USN-3417-1] Libgcrypt vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3417-1) * [[USN-3415-2] tcpdump vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3415-2) * [[USN-3415-1] tcpdump vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3415-1) * [[USN-3414-1] QEMU vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3414-1) * [[USN-3413-1] BlueZ vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3413-1) Bug Triage * Backlog:  Mainline Inclusion Requests * completed nghttp2 (LP: #[1687454](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1687454 "Bug")) * MIR backlog:  Development * validate license and deprecate aliases in the review tools * reviews + broadcom-asic-control updates PR 3898 + bootstrap.c of snap-confine calling snap-update-ns PR 3621 + s390x and i386 socket snap-seccomp test failures fix (PR 3900) + network interface update PR 3898 + ‘mount host system fonts in desktop interface’ PR 3889 + ‘enable partial apparmor support’ PR 3814 + ‘run secondary-arch tests via gcc-multilib’ PR 3901 + apparmor profile changes for snap-confine calling snap-update-ns PR 3621 * implement/submit PR 3919 for miscellaneous policy updates xxix * implement/submit PR 3921 for miscellaneous policy updates xxix for 2.28 * policy update for org.freedesktop.DBus [ListNames](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ListNames)() PR 3928 * regression and manual testing of LSM stacking with [AppArmor](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor) and SELinux * fscrypt 0.2.1 packaged * upload apparmor 2.11.0-2ubuntu17 for systemd stub resolver * send up patch to upstream apparmor to drop /var/run alternation in favor of /run What the Security Team is Reading This Week * [Rethinking Kernel Isolation](https://cs.brown.edu/~vpk/papers/ret2dir.sec14.pdf) * [New Hardware Announcement](http://www.anandtech.com/show/11750/hot-chips-ibms-next-generation-z14-cpu-mainframe-live-blog-5pm-pt-12am-utc) * [Linux Security Summit](https://twitter.com/xjamesmorris/status/908362909117440000) 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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