Bug 13366 - make pkg-stats: unrelated CVEs linked to linux package
Summary: make pkg-stats: unrelated CVEs linked to linux package
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: buildroot
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: 2020.11
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: unassigned
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Reported: 2020-12-08 12:57 UTC by Aleksandr Makarov
Modified: 2024-06-15 14:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2020-12-08 12:57 UTC, Aleksandr Makarov
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Description Aleksandr Makarov 2020-12-08 12:57:56 UTC
Created attachment 8701 [details]
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Steps to reproduce:

$ cat <<EOF > .config
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_ARCH_DEFAULT_CONFIG=y
> EOF

$ make pkg-stats

In my case, there are 110 CVEs linked to linux package, while most of them or none at all are related.

The last three entries in CVEs column:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2032 - mediawiki
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3250 - puppet
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4909 - transmission
Comment 1 Thomas Petazzoni 2020-12-08 13:40:58 UTC
Thanks a lot for your bug report! Could you try with the patch series at https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/list/?series=218648 applied, and see if it improves things ?
Comment 2 Aleksandr Makarov 2020-12-08 14:47:04 UTC
The mentioned patch series seems to help with the CVEs flood for linux package.

However, I find it odd to see in which order the CVEs column gets sorted now: 

- In ascending order: "yellow - orange - green", but i'd expect "orange - yellow - green"
- In descending order: "green - orange - yellow" instead of "green - yellow - orange"

(See attached image for illustration)
Comment 3 Aleksandr Makarov 2020-12-08 14:53:14 UTC
(The screenshot is 0.5M, attaching the link to external storage)
https://imgur.com/a/LNEyaHR
Comment 4 Thomas Petazzoni 2020-12-09 09:33:42 UTC
Thanks for your feedback. This sorting is just doing alphabetic sorting I believe, so it doesn't make much sense for CVEs. It's a bit like sorting the "Current version" or "Latest version" columns: it doesn't do anything useful. We should perhaps disable the sorting on some columns.
Comment 5 Yann E. MORIN 2024-06-15 14:55:49 UTC
Thank you for your report.

The issue tracker for the Buildroot project has been moved to
the Gitlab.com issue tracker:
    https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues

We are taking this opportunity to close old issues in this old
tracker. If you believe your issue is still relevant, please
open one in the new issue tracker.

Thank you!