On 12 Oct 2022, at 08:25, Alberto Pianon via lists.openembedded.org 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It iterates over NIST CVE db years, but if some year fail to download, it 
> goes on anyway, and it still merges the successful downloads into 
> nvdcve_1.1.db, without returning error.
> 
> IMHO this is a severe issue because it may silently lead to false negatives 
> in the CVE check. If some downloads fail due to timeouts or other connection 
> problems, cve-check should retry a number of times, and if any download still 
> fails, cve-update-db-native do_fecth should fail, and it turn all 
> do_cve_check tasks should fail, since doing a CVE check against a 
> corrupted/incomplete CVE database is clearly useless

Yes, that’s a bug.

Please do file a bug (bugzilla.yoctoproject.org), and ideally send a patch if 
you can.

Ross

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