Overview
This week we start preparing for 16.04 LTS to transition to Extended
Security Maintenance, plus we look at security updates for OpenSSH, Python,
the Linux kernel and more, as well as some currently open positions on our
team.
This week in Ubuntu Security Updates
28 unique CVEs addressed
[USN-4762-1] OpenSSH vulnerability [00:54]
- 1 CVEs addressed in Focal (20.04 LTS), Groovy (20.10)
- Double free in ssh-agent - so only affects openssh-client and where the
ssh-agent socket is able to be accessed by other users etc - on moderns
systems the socket is only accessible by the owner so would need to have
forwarded the ssh-agent to an attacker controlled host perhaps to be
vulnerable..
[USN-4763-1] Pillow vulnerabilities [01:50]
- 8 CVEs addressed in Xenial (16.04 LTS), Bionic (18.04 LTS), Focal (20.04 LTS), Groovy (20.10)
- Python imaging library - uses C libraries like libjpeg for actual image
handling so ends up with usual mix of C memory corruption issues - OOB
read/write etc - crash, code exec
[USN-4754-3] Python vulnerabilities [02:50]
- 7 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS), Focal (20.04 LTS)
- Good illustration of main vs universe split - multiple python
versions in different releases - 2.7 in main X+B, but universe in F+G,
3.5 in X, 3.6 in B, 3.8 in F+G - but we still have 2.7 in universe on
those releases as well - so this update addresses the same vulns in
universe
[USN-4764-1] GLib vulnerability [04:57]
- 1 CVEs addressed in Xenial (16.04 LTS), Bionic (18.04 LTS), Focal (20.04 LTS), Groovy (20.10)
- g_file_replace() on a dangling symlink would also create the target of
the symlink as an empty file (but only if did not already exist)
[USN-4876-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities [05:49]
- 3 CVEs addressed in Trusty ESM (14.04 ESM), Xenial (16.04 LTS)
- 4.4 (xenial + trusty esm)
[USN-4877-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- 2 CVEs addressed in Trusty ESM (14.04 ESM), Xenial (16.04 LTS), Bionic (18.04 LTS)
- 4.15
[USN-4878-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- 4 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS), Focal (20.04 LTS)
- 5.4
[USN-4879-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- 2 CVEs addressed in Focal (20.04 LTS), Groovy (20.10)
- 5.8
- Marvell wifi driver buffer overflow - could be triggered by a malicious
remote device sending a overly long ad-hoc SSID value - DoS, RCE
[USN-4880-1] OpenJPEG vulnerabilities [07:00]
- 5 CVEs addressed in Xenial (16.04 LTS)
- Various memory corruption issues fixed in openjpeg - DoS, RCE etc
Goings on in Ubuntu Security Community
Preparing for 16.04 ESM transition [07:35]
Hiring [10:17]
AppArmor Security Engineer
Ubuntu Security Engineer
Security Engineer - Ubuntu
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