Public bug reported:
recently published OVAL definition (https://people.canonical.com
/~ubuntu-security/oval/) may have some breaking change as following:
all definition which referenced 'linux' binary package object, has been
affected.
How to reproduce:
for example find definition id: oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2019114770000000
then in criterions find test_ref="oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:tst:2019114770000000"
then in that test, find object: oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:obj:201245420000000,
which represent 'linux' package binaries.
in this `dpkginfo_object`, <linux-def:name> used to contain only the name of
the binary package, but now it contains a var_ref which points to multiple full
name of the most recent binary package for linux kernel image:
<constant_variable id="oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:var:201245420000000"
version="1" datatype="string" comment="'linux' package binaries">
<value>linux-image-4.4.0-151-generic</value>
<value>linux-image-4.4.0-151-generic-lpae</value>
<value>linux-image-4.4.0-151-lowlatency</value>
<value>linux-image-4.4.0-151-powerpc-e500mc</value>
<value>linux-image-4.4.0-151-powerpc-smp</value>
<value>linux-image-4.4.0-151-powerpc64-emb</value>
<value>linux-image-4.4.0-151-powerpc64-smp</value>
<value>linux-image-unsigned-4.4.0-151-generic</value>
<value>linux-image-unsigned-4.4.0-151-lowlatency</value>
</constant_variable>
I believe this is an error, an 'linux' binary package should not contain any
version information, as can be seen in other packages objects which only
contains a name of package.
can you please explain the purpose of this section?
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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designated object in OVAL definition may be wrong
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