[oe-commits] [openembedded-core] 08/13: procps: whitelist CVE-2018-1121
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commit b3fa0654abf9ac32f683ac174e453ea5e64b6cb8
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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