Recently a number of CVEs have been logged against a nodejs project
called "node-tar". These appear as false positives against the GNU tar
being built by Yocto. Some of these have been manually excluded using
CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST.
To avoid this problem, use the vendor name (in addition to package name)
for filtering CVEs. The syntax for this is:
CVE_PRODUCT = "vendor:package"
When not specified, the vendor defaults to "%" which matches anything.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Siemsen <redacted>
---
meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
index 98755a11cc..3728b5090d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
@@ -62,5 +62,6 @@ NATIVE_PACKAGE_PATH_SUFFIX = "/${PN}"
BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-# These are both specific to the NPM package node-tar
-CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST += "CVE-2021-32803 CVE-2021-32804"
+# Avoid false positives from CVEs in node-tar package
+# For example CVE-2021-{32803,32804,37701,37712,37713}
+CVE_PRODUCT = "gnu:tar"--
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