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: Armin Kuster <[email protected]>
---
 meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb 
b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
index 9756db0e7b..a20917b223 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.3.15.bb
@@ -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"
-- 
2.17.1

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