[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] procps: whitelist CVE-2018-1121
Ross Burton
ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Nov 4 13:51:05 UTC 2019
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>
---
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 9756db0e7b7..e128477c5fa 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"
--
2.20.1
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