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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.

(From OE-Core rev: b3fa0654abf9ac32f683ac174e453ea5e64b6cb8)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ross Burton
2019-11-04 14:26:53 +00:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent a18b7d6add
commit 50423a7896
@@ -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"