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| author |   Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> | 2019-11-04 14:26:53 +0000 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-11-05 10:36:20 +0000 |
| commit | b3fa0654abf9ac32f683ac174e453ea5e64b6cb8 (patch) | |
| tree | a0ed8caad89f6c6ee7c5c5c844564bc56dfae95f /meta | |
| parent | 341e43ebd935daeb592cb073bf00f80c49a8ec2d (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-b3fa0654abf9ac32f683ac174e453ea5e64b6cb8.tar.gz | |
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@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta')
| -rw-r--r-- | meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb | 9 |
1 files 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 9756db0e7b..f240e54fd8 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" |