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authorMarta Rybczynska <rybczynska@gmail.com>2025-02-18 16:55:29 +0100
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vulnerabilities/classes: remove references to cve-check text format
The text format has been removed, so also remove references and examples using this format. Replace with examples with the JSON format. (From yocto-docs rev: a52cd7bcadccc53e982f90d6e170d00798322597) Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska@ygreky.com> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -66,37 +66,77 @@ found in ``build/tmp/deploy/cve``.
66 66
67For example the CVE check report for the ``flex-native`` recipe looks like:: 67For example the CVE check report for the ``flex-native`` recipe looks like::
68 68
69 $ cat poky/build/tmp/deploy/cve/flex-native 69 $ cat ./tmp/deploy/cve/flex-native_cve.json
70 LAYER: meta 70 {
71 PACKAGE NAME: flex-native 71 "version": "1",
72 PACKAGE VERSION: 2.6.4 72 "package": [
73 CVE: CVE-2016-6354 73 {
74 CVE STATUS: Patched 74 "name": "flex-native",
75 CVE SUMMARY: Heap-based buffer overflow in the yy_get_next_buffer function in Flex before 2.6.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving num_to_read. 75 "layer": "meta",
76 CVSS v2 BASE SCORE: 7.5 76 "version": "2.6.4",
77 CVSS v3 BASE SCORE: 9.8 77 "products": [
78 VECTOR: NETWORK 78 {
79 MORE INFORMATION: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6354 79 "product": "flex",
80 80 "cvesInRecord": "No"
81 LAYER: meta 81 },
82 PACKAGE NAME: flex-native 82 {
83 PACKAGE VERSION: 2.6.4 83 "product": "flex",
84 CVE: CVE-2019-6293 84 "cvesInRecord": "Yes"
85 CVE STATUS: Ignored 85 }
86 CVE SUMMARY: An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the mark_beginning_as_normal function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '*' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service. 86 ],
87 CVSS v2 BASE SCORE: 4.3 87 "issue": [
88 CVSS v3 BASE SCORE: 5.5 88 {
89 VECTOR: NETWORK 89 "id": "CVE-2006-0459",
90 MORE INFORMATION: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6293 90 "status": "Patched",
91 "link": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0459",
92 "summary": "flex.skl in Will Estes and John Millaway Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator (flex) before 2.5.33 does not allocate enough memory for grammars containing (1) REJECT statements or (2) trailing context rules, which causes flex to generate code that contains a buffer overflow that might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code.",
93 "scorev2": "7.5",
94 "scorev3": "0.0",
95 "scorev4": "0.0",
96 "modified": "2024-11-21T00:06Z",
97 "vector": "NETWORK",
98 "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
99 "detail": "version-not-in-range"
100 },
101 {
102 "id": "CVE-2016-6354",
103 "status": "Patched",
104 "link": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6354",
105 "summary": "Heap-based buffer overflow in the yy_get_next_buffer function in Flex before 2.6.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving num_to_read.",
106 "scorev2": "7.5",
107 "scorev3": "9.8",
108 "scorev4": "0.0",
109 "modified": "2024-11-21T02:55Z",
110 "vector": "NETWORK",
111 "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
112 "detail": "version-not-in-range"
113 },
114 {
115 "id": "CVE-2019-6293",
116 "status": "Ignored",
117 "link": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6293",
118 "summary": "An issue was discovered in the function mark_beginning_as_normal in nfa.c in flex 2.6.4. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the mark_beginning_as_normal function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '*' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service.",
119 "scorev2": "4.3",
120 "scorev3": "5.5",
121 "scorev4": "0.0",
122 "modified": "2024-11-21T04:46Z",
123 "vector": "NETWORK",
124 "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
125 "detail": "upstream-wontfix",
126 "description": "there is stack exhaustion but no bug and it is building the parser, not running it, effectively similar to a compiler ICE. Upstream no plans to address this."
127 }
128 ]
129 }
130 ]
131 }
91 132
92For images, a summary of all recipes included in the image and their CVEs is also 133For images, a summary of all recipes included in the image and their CVEs is also
93generated in textual and JSON formats. These ``.cve`` and ``.json`` reports can be found 134generated in the JSON format. These ``.json`` reports can be found
94in the ``tmp/deploy/images`` directory for each compiled image. 135in the ``tmp/deploy/images`` directory for each compiled image.
95 136
96At build time CVE check will also throw warnings about ``Unpatched`` CVEs:: 137At build time CVE check will also throw warnings about ``Unpatched`` CVEs::
97 138
98 WARNING: flex-2.6.4-r0 do_cve_check: Found unpatched CVE (CVE-2019-6293), for more information check /poky/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/flex/2.6.4-r0/temp/cve.log 139 WARNING: qemu-native-9.2.0-r0 do_cve_check: Found unpatched CVE (CVE-2023-1386)
99 WARNING: libarchive-3.5.1-r0 do_cve_check: Found unpatched CVE (CVE-2021-36976), for more information check /poky/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/libarchive/3.5.1-r0/temp/cve.log
100 140
101It is also possible to check the CVE status of individual packages as follows:: 141It is also possible to check the CVE status of individual packages as follows::
102 142
@@ -115,10 +155,10 @@ upstream `NIST CVE database <https://nvd.nist.gov/>`__.
115 155
116The variable supports using vendor and product names like this:: 156The variable supports using vendor and product names like this::
117 157
118 CVE_PRODUCT = "flex_project:flex" 158 CVE_PRODUCT = "flex_project:flex westes:flex"
119 159
120In this example the vendor name used in the CVE database is ``flex_project`` and the 160In this example we have two possible vendors names, ``flex_project`` and ``westes``,
121product is ``flex``. With this setting the ``flex`` recipe only maps to this specific 161with the product name ``flex``. With this setting the ``flex`` recipe only maps to this specific
122product and not products from other vendors with same name ``flex``. 162product and not products from other vendors with same name ``flex``.
123 163
124Similarly, when the recipe version :term:`PV` is not compatible with software versions used by 164Similarly, when the recipe version :term:`PV` is not compatible with software versions used by