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: 16b98e759a33d9f20e5b40aa1cff5b1c27dbee9d)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Ross Burton authored and Richard Purdie committed 2019-11-13 22:02:15 +00:00
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commit d95f3a8277
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@@ -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"