Episodes
For the first episode of 2024 we take a look at the case of a raft of bogus FOSS
CVEs reported on full-disclosure as well as AppSec tools in Ubuntu and the EOL
announcement for 23.04, plus we cover vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, Puma,
Paramiko and more.
Published 02/02/24
For the final episode of 2023 we discuss creating PoCs for vulns in tar and the
looming EOL for Ubuntu 23.04, plus we look into security updates for curl,
BlueZ, Netatalk, GNOME Settings and a heap more.
Published 12/15/23
Mark Esler is our special guest on the podcast this week to discuss the
OpenSSF's Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C/C++ plus we cover
vulnerabilities and updates for GIMP, FreeRDP, GStreamer, HAProxy and more.
Published 12/08/23
This week we take a deep dive into the Reptar vuln in Intel processors plus we
look into some relic vulnerabilities in Squid and OpenZFS and finally we detail
new hardening measures in tracker-miners to keep your desktop safer.
Published 12/01/23
As we ease back into regular programming, we cover the various activities the
team got up to over the past few weeks whilst away in Riga for the Ubuntu Summit
and Ubuntu Engineering Sprint.
Published 11/17/23
With the Ubuntu Summit just around the corner, we preview a couple talks by the
Ubuntu Security team, plus we look at security updates for OpenSSL, Sofia-SIP,
AOM, ncurses, the Linux kernel and more.
Published 10/27/23
After a well-deserved break, we're back looking at the recent Ubuntu 23.10
release and the significant security technologies it introduces along with a
call for testing of unprivileged user namespace restrictions, plus the details
of security updates for curl, Samba, iperf3, CUE and more.
Published 10/20/23
It's the Linux Security Summit in Bilbao this week and we bring you some
highlights from our favourite talks, plus we cover the 25 most stubborn software
weaknesses, and we look at security updates for Open VM Tools, libwebp, Django,
binutils, Indent, the Linux kernel and more.
Published 09/22/23
Andrei is back this week with a deep dive into recent research around CVSS
scoring inconsistencies, plus we look at a recent Ubuntu blog post on the
internals of package updates and the repositories, and we cover security updates
in Apache Shiro, GRUB2, CUPS, RedCloth, curl and more.
Published 09/15/23
This week we detail the recently announced and long-awaited feature of
TPM-backed full-disk encryption for the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 release, plus we
cover security updates for elfutils, GitPython, atftp, BusyBox, Docker Registry
and more.
Published 09/08/23
This week we cover reports of "fake" CVEs and their impact on the FOSS security
ecosystem, plus we look at security updates for PHP, Fast DDS, JOSE for C/C++,
the Linux kernel, AMD Microcode and more.
Published 09/01/23
This week we talk about HTTP Content-Length handling, intricacies of group
management in container environments and making sure you check your return codes
while covering vulns in HAProxy, Podman, Inetutils and more, plus we put a call
out for input on using open source tools to secure your SDLC.
Published 08/25/23
We're back after unexpectedly going AWOL last week to bring you the latest in
Ubuntu Security including the recently announced Downfall and GameOver(lay)
vulnerabilities, plus we look at security updates for OpenSSH and GStreamer **and**
we detail plans for using AppArmor to restrict the use of unprivileged user
namespaces as an attack vector in future Ubuntu releases.
Published 08/18/23
This week we look at the recent Zenbleed vulnerability affecting some AMD
processors, plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, a high
profile OpenSSH vulnerability and finally Andrei is back with a deep dive into
recent academic research around how to safeguard machine learning systems when
used across distributed deployments.
Published 08/04/23
This week we talk about the dual use purposes of eBPF - both for security and
for exploitation, and how you can keep your systems safe, plus we cover security
updates for the Linux kernel, Ruby, SciPy, YAJL, ConnMan, curl and more.
Published 07/21/23
We take a sneak peek at the upcoming AppArmor 4.0 release, plus we cover
vulnerabilities in AccountsService, the Linux Kernel, ReportLab, GNU Screen,
containerd and more.
Published 07/07/23
This week we look at the top 25 most dangerous vulnerability types, as well as
the announcement of the program for LSS EU, and we cover security updates for
Bind, the Linux kernel, CUPS, etcd and more.
Published 06/30/23
For our 200th episode, we discuss the impact of Red Hat's decision to stop
publicly releasing the RHEL source code, plus we cover security updates for
libX11, GNU SASL, QEMU, VLC, pngcheck, the Linux kernel and a whole lot more.
Published 06/23/23
For our 199th episode Andrei looks at Fuzzing Configurations of Program Options
plus we discuss Google's findings on the `io_uring` kernel subsystem and we look
at vulnerability fixes for Netatalk, Jupyter Core, Vim, SSSD, GNU binutils, GLib
and more.
Published 06/16/23
This week we investigate the mystery of failing GPG signatures for the 16.04 ISO
images, plus we look at security updates for CUPS, Avahi, the Linux kernel, FRR,
Go and more.
Published 06/09/23
The venerable Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release has transitioned into ESM, plus we look
at Till Kamppeter's excellent guide on how to set up your GitHub projects to
receive private vulnerability reports, and we cover the week in security updates
including PostgreSQL, Jhead, the Linux kernel, Linux PTP, snapd and a whole lot
more.
Published 06/02/23
This week we look at some recent security developments from PyPI, the Linux
Security Summit North America and the pending transition of Ubuntu 18.04 to ESM,
plus we cover security updates for cups-filter, the Linux kernel, Git, runC,
ncurses, cloud-init and more.
Published 05/26/23
Alex and Camila discuss security update management strategies after a recent
outage at Datadog was attributed to a security update for systemd on Ubuntu,
plus we look at security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, OpenStack,
Synapse, OpenJDK and more.
Published 05/19/23
The team are back from Prague and bring with them a new segment, drilling into
recent academic research in the cybersecurity space - for this inaugural segment
new team member Andrei looks at modelling of attacks against network intrusion
detections systems, plus we cover the week in security updates looking at
vulnerabilities in Django, Ruby, Linux kernel, Erlang, OpenStack and more.
Published 05/11/23
The release of Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster is nigh so we take a look at some of
the things the security team has been doing along the way, plus it's our 6000th
USN so we look back at the last 19 years of USNs whilst covering security
updates for the Linux kernel, Emacs, Irssi, Sudo, Firefox and more.
Published 04/13/23