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manuals: further documentation for cve-check

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This adds details about the actual implementation
of vulnerability checks, about how to fix or ignore
vulnerabilities in recipes, and documents the
CVE_CHECK_PN_WHITELIST and CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST variables.

(From yocto-docs rev: 55886d211218b3a604c2f8a29c854685ebf284dd)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <foss@0leil.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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variable only in certain contexts (e.g. when building for kernel
and kernel module recipes).
:term:`CVE_CHECK_PN_WHITELIST`
The list of package names (:term:`PN`) for which
CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) are ignored.
:term:`CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST`
The list of CVE IDs which are ignored. Here is
an example from the :oe_layerindex:`Python3 recipe</layerindex/recipe/23823>`::
# This is windows only issue.
CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2020-15523"
:term:`CVE_PRODUCT`
In a recipe, defines the name used to match the recipe name
against the name in the upstream `NIST CVE database <https://nvd.nist.gov/>`__.
The default is ${:term:`BPN`}. If it does not match the name in NIST CVE
The default is ${:term:`BPN`}. If it does not match the name in the NIST CVE
database or matches with multiple entries in the database, the default
value needs to be changed.