[oe-commits] [openembedded-core] 08/14: procps: whitelist CVE-2018-1121

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commit 6345f0f4da3a327f17de9bc2f7f4f4a836437d90
Author: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Nov 4 14:26:53 2019 +0000

    procps: whitelist CVE-2018-1121
    
    This CVE is about race conditions in 'ps' which make it unsuitable for security
    audits.  As these race conditions are unavoidable ps shouldn't be used for
    security auditing, so this isn't a valid CVE.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
index 9756db0..f240e54 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ the /proc filesystem. The package includes the programs ps, top, vmstat, w, kill
 HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM="file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
-                  file://COPYING.LIB;md5=4cf66a4984120007c9881cc871cf49db \
-                 "
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
+                    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=4cf66a4984120007c9881cc871cf49db \
+                    "
 
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
 
@@ -64,3 +64,6 @@ python __anonymous() {
         d.setVarFlag('ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME', prog, '%s/%s' % (d.getVar('base_sbindir'), prog))
 }
 
+# 'ps' isn't suitable for use as a security tool so whitelist this CVE.
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575473#c3
+CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2018-1121"

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