From: Ross Burton <[email protected]>

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.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <[email protected]>
---
 meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb 
b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
index 9756db0..f240e54 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
@@ -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"
-- 
2.7.4

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