--- title: 'Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 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-7-2017?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 7 September 2017 # Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 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 201 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 59 that applied to Ubuntu. * Published 9 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 18 security issues (CVEs) across 11 supported packages. ### Ubuntu Security Notices * [[USN-3407-1] PyJWT vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3407-1) * [[USN-3406-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3406-2) * [[USN-3405-2] Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3405-2) * [[USN-3404-2] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3404-2) * [[USN-3405-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3405-1) * [[USN-3406-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3406-1) * [[USN-3404-1] Linux kernel vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3404-1) * [[USN-3403-1] Ghostscript vulnerabilities](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3403-1) * [[USN-3199-3] Python Crypto vulnerability](https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3199-3) ### Bug Triage * Backlog:  ### Mainline Inclusion Requests * websockify, spice-html5 underway (LP: #[1108935](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108935 "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")) ### Development * Lots of snapd reviews: PR 3720 (solus), PR 3398 (XDG\_ATA\_DIRS for wayland), PR 3617 (big udev update), PR 3814 (opengl updates), PR 3812 (bluez interface on classic) * snapd PR 3826 for iio * follow-ups on PR 3805 (username/group instead of uid/gid) * lots of review/discussion surrounding PR 3621 (snap-confine calling snap-update-ns) * triage/fix snap-seccop testsuite failures on armhf and arm64 * begin investigation of snapd device cgroup regression ### What the Security Team is Reading This Week * [Quick Guide: Prepare Your Systems for the Root KSK Rollover](https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/ksk-rollover-quick-guide-prepare-systems-03apr17-en.pdf) and [DNSSEC KSK Rollover](https://www.slideshare.net/apnic/2017-dnssec-ksk-rollover) * [Harvard Gazette On internet privacy, be very afraid](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/08/when-it-comes-to-internet-privacy-be-very-afraid-analyst-suggests/) ### 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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