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Ubuntu Security Podcast

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A fortnightly podcast talking about the latest developments and updates from the Ubuntu Security team, including a summary of recent security vulnerabilities and fixes as well as a discussion on some of the goings on in the wider Ubuntu Security community.
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Episodes

Episode 33

Updated Intel microcode for Cherry + Bay Trial CPUs, fixes for vulnerabilities in curl, Firefox, PHP and MariaDB, plus we talk configuration of virtualised guests to mitigate speculative execution vulnerabilities as well as plans for the Ubuntu 19.10 development cycle.

May 27, 201914 min

Episode 32

This week we look at updates to cover the latest Intel CPU vulnerabilities (MDS - aka RIDL, Fallout, ZombieLoad), plus other vulnerabilies in PostgreSQL, ISC DHCP, Samba and more, whilst special guest this week is Seth Arnold from the Ubuntu Security Team to talk Main Inclusion Review code audits.

May 20, 201924 min

Episode 31

This week we cover security fixes for GNOME Shell, FFmpeg, Sudo, Ghostscript and others, and we talk to Joe McManus about malicious Dockerhub images, Git repos being ransomed more.

May 13, 201922 min

Episode 30

Fixes for 19 different vulnerabilities across MySQL, Dovecot, Memcached and others, plus we talk to Joe McManus about the recent iLnkP2P IoT hack and the compromise of DockerHub's credentials database and more.

May 06, 201921 min

Episode 29

This week we look at fixes from the past two weeks including BIND, NTFS-3G, Dovecot, Pacemaker and more, plus we follow up last episodes IoT security discussion with Joe McManus talking about Ubuntu Core. Finally we cover the release of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo and the transition of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr to Extended Security Maintenance.

Apr 30, 201921 min

Episode 28

This week we look at updates for vulnerabilities in wpa_supplicant, Samba, systemd, wget and more and we talk to Joe about IoT security (or the prevailing lack-thereof).

Apr 15, 201922 min

Episode 27

Carpe Diem for Apache HTTP Server, plus updates for Dovecot, PolicyKit and the Linux kernel, and we talk to Joe McManus about the recent Asus ShadowHammer supply chain attack and more.

Apr 08, 201930 min

Episode 26

This week we look security updates for a heap of packages including Firefox & Thunderbird, PHP & QEMU, plus we discuss Facebook's recent password storage incident as well as some listener hardening tips and more.

Apr 01, 201920 min

Episode 25

Ghostscript is back to haunt us for another week, plus we look at vulnerabilities in ntfs-3g, snapd, firefox and more.

Mar 25, 201915 min

Episode 24

A look at recent fixes for vulnerabilities in poppler, WALinuxAgent, the Linux kernel and more. We also talk about some listener feedback on Ubuntu hardening and the launch of Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Mar 19, 201913 min

Episode 23

This week we look at security updates for the Linux kernel, PHP and NVIDIA drivers, revealing recent research into GPU based side-channel attacks plus we call for suggestions on hardening features and more.

Mar 12, 201913 min

Episode 22

This week we cover security updates including Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSSL and another Ghostscript regression, plus we look at a recent report from Capsule8 comparing Linux hardening features across various distributions and we answer some listener questions.

Mar 04, 201916 min

Episode 21

Double episode covering the security updates from the last 2 weeks, including snapd (DirtySock), systemd and more, plus we talk responsible disclosure and some open positions on the Ubuntu Security team.

Feb 21, 201918 min

Episode 20

This week we look at Linux kernel updates for all releases, OpenSSH, dovecot, curl and more. Plus we answer some frequently asked questions for Ubuntu security, in particular the perennial favourite of why we choose to just backport security fixes instead of doing rolling package version updates to resolve outstanding CVEs.

Feb 11, 201917 min

Episode 19

This week we look at updates to the Linux kernel in preparation for the 18.04.2 release, plus updates for Open vSwitch, Firefox, Avahi, LibVNCServer and more. We also revisit and discuss upstream changes to the mincore() system call to thwart page-cache side-channel attacks first discussed in [Episode 17](https://ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-17/).

Feb 04, 201915 min

Episode 18

This week we look at some details of the 46 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases and take a deep dive into the recent apt security bug.

Jan 29, 201914 min

Episode 17

First episode of 2019! This week we look "System Down" in systemd, as well as updates for the Linux kernel, GnuPG, PolicyKit and more, and discuss a recent cache-side channel attack using the mincore() system call.

Jan 22, 201922 min

Episode 16

Last episode for 2018! This week we look at CVEs in lxml, CUPS, pixman, FreeRDP & more, plus we discuss the security of home routers as evaluated by C-ITL.

Dec 17, 201811 min

Episode 15

Security updates for 29 CVEs including Perl, the kernel, OpenSSL (PortSmash) and more, plus in response to some listener questions, we discuss how to make sure you always have the latest security updates by using unattended-upgrades.

Dec 10, 201817 min

Episode 14

This week we look at some details of the 32 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases and talk open source software supply chain integrity and how this relates to Ubuntu compared to the recent npm event-stream compromise.

Dec 03, 201822 min

Episode 13

This week we look at some details of the 16 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases and more.

Nov 26, 20189 min

Episode 12

This week we look at some details of the 33 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases, including some significant updates for systemd and the kernel, plus we talk about even more Intel side-channel vulnerabilities and more.

Nov 19, 201820 min

Episode 11

This week we look at some details of the 23 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases, discuss the latest purported Intel side-channel vulnerability PortSmash and more.

Nov 12, 201813 min

Episode 10

This week we look at some details of the 17 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases, have a brief look at some Canonical presentations from LSS-EU and more.

Nov 05, 20189 min

Episode 9

This week we look at some details of the 61 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases, with a particular focus on the recent Xorg vulnerability ([CVE-2018-14665](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14665)), plus Cosmic is now officially supported by the Security Team.

Oct 30, 201812 min

Episode 8

This week we look at some details of the 15 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases and discuss some of the security relevant changes in Ubuntu 18.10, plus a refresh of the Ubuntu CVE tracker and more.

Oct 22, 20189 min

Episode 7

This week we look at some details of the 78 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases including more GhostScript, ImageMagick, WebKitGTK, Linux kernel and more.

Oct 16, 201811 min

Episode 6

This week we look at some details of the 17 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases and more.

Oct 02, 201812 min

Episode 5

This week we look at some details of the 43 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases and talk about the recently announced Extended Security Maintenance support for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.

Sep 24, 201816 min

Episode 4

A quieter week in package updates - this week we look at some details of the 9 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases and talk about various hardening guides for Ubuntu.

Sep 10, 201811 min
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