[Buildroot] [PATCH 05/10] package/flex: ignore CVE-2019-6293
Matt Weber
matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Wed Apr 21 20:42:30 UTC 2021
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6293
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/55386#issuecomment-683792976
"But this bug does not cause stack overflows in the generated code.
The function and file referred to in the bug (mark_beginning_as_normal
in nfa.c) are part of the flex code generator, not part of the
generated code. If flex crashes before generating any code, that
can hardly be a vulnerability. If flex does not crash, the generated
code is fine (or perhaps subject to other unreported bugs, who knows,
but the NFA has been generated correctly)."
Upstream has chosen to not provide a fix
https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/pull/312
Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com>
---
package/flex/flex.mk | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/package/flex/flex.mk b/package/flex/flex.mk
index 2d00969662..85da5ddae8 100644
--- a/package/flex/flex.mk
+++ b/package/flex/flex.mk
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ FLEX_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
FLEX_LICENSE = FLEX
FLEX_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
FLEX_CPE_ID_VENDOR = flex_project
+# bug does not cause stack overflows in the generated code and has been
+# noted upstream as a bug in the code generator
+FLEX_IGNORE_CVES = CVE-2019-6293
FLEX_DEPENDENCIES = $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES) host-m4
HOST_FLEX_DEPENDENCIES = host-m4
--
2.17.1
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