From: Ross Burton <r...@burtonini.com>
CVE-2011-4613 is specific to Debian/Ubuntu.
CVE-2020-25697 is a non-trivial attack that may not actually be feasible
considering the default behaviour for clients is to exit if the
connection is lost.
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.bur...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit afa2e6c31a79f75ff4113d53f618bbb349cd6c17)
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <st...@sakoman.com>
---
meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
index 02daafc098..c891211c40 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ XORG_PN = "xorg-server"
SRC_URI = "${XORG_MIRROR}/individual/xserver/${XORG_PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"
CVE_PRODUCT = "xorg-server x_server"
+# This is specific to Debian's xserver-wrapper.c
+CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2011-4613"
+# As per upstream, exploiting this flaw is non-trivial and it requires exact
+# timing on the behalf of the attacker. Many graphical applications exit if
their
+# connection to the X server is lost, so a typical desktop session is either
+# impossible or difficult to exploit. There is currently no upstream patch
+# available for this flaw.
+CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2020-25697"
S = "${WORKDIR}/${XORG_PN}-${PV}"
--
2.25.1
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