14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical's James Donner published the August 10, 2017, weekly update of Ubuntu Security team's activities, which managed to triage 242 security vulnerability reports and post 13 USNs (Ubuntu Security Notices).
According to the report, a total of 242 public security vulnerability reports were triaged by the Ubuntu Security team, who managed to retain only 57 of them that affected various of the supported Ubuntu Linux releases, including Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).
From these, they published last week 13 Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs) to inform the community about new, patched versions of various core components of the Ubuntu Linux operating systems, fixing a total of 29 security flaws across 15 of them, including NSS, Apache, LXC, ImageMagick, WebKitGTK+, and Linux kernel.
"During the last week, the Ubuntu Security team triaged 242 public security vulnerability reports, retaining the 57 that applied to Ubuntu," said James Donner, Digital Marketing Executive, Canonical. "Published 13 Ubuntu Security Notices which fixed 29 security issues (CVEs) across 15 supported packages."
Users should always keep their Ubuntu systems up to date
You can find here the full list of Ubuntu Security Notices that the Ubuntu Security team published during the last week, if you're curious to know what security issues were patched for each of the supported packages and which Ubuntu Linux releases were affected by these vulnerabilities.
But, in the meantime, we recommend all Ubuntu users to keep their installations up to date by making sure all the package updates are installed. To do that, you can either fire up the Terminal app and execute the command listed below, or open Ubuntu Software package manager, check for updates, and apply them all.
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
Make sure that you reboot your computer once you've installed the latest Linux kernel version for your Ubuntu OS, that if you don't use the Canonical Live Patch service, of course. Otherwise, we always recommend our readers to keep their operating systems and installed apps up-to-date at all times for increased security.