From: Ross Burton <ross.bur...@intel.com> 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.bur...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <anuj.mit...@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 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" -- 2.7.4 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
