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[1/2] cve-extra-exclusions: remove historic kernel CVEs which are handled now

Message ID 20230904160335.376303-1-ross.burton@arm.com
State Accepted, archived
Commit b46930641b9b5b38997b41ba8036e99387ed4225
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Series [1/2] cve-extra-exclusions: remove historic kernel CVEs which are handled now | expand

Commit Message

Ross Burton Sept. 4, 2023, 4:03 p.m. UTC
From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>

The bulk of the historic kernel CVEs in this file are now handled by
the include files generated by linux/generate-cve-exclusions.py, so
remove them.

Those that remain date from 2017 or earlier, so rename the group to
'historic' and update the comment.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
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 .../distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc   | 47 ++++---------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc
index 9d4422bc0f9..84217e4acde 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc
@@ -60,47 +60,18 @@  replacing bdb with supported and open source friendly alternatives. As a result
 # ensure the bulk of the major kernel CVEs are fixed and we don't dive into each individual issue
 # as the stable maintainers are much more able to do that.
 #
-# Rather than just ignore all kernel CVEs, list the ones we ignore on this basis here, allowing new
-# issues to be visible. If anyone wishes to clean up CPE entries with NIST for these, we'd
-# welcome than and then entries can likely be removed from here.
+# We have a script (generate-cve-exclusions.py) to have correct CVE status for backported issues,
+# but the data on linuxkernelcves.com isn't 100% complete for the older CVEs.  These historical
+# CVEs need review and typically linuxkernelcves.com updated and then removed from here.
 #
 
-CVE_STATUS_GROUPS += "CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2010 CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2017 CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2018 CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2020 \
-                      CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2021 CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2022"
+CVE_STATUS_GROUPS += "CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_HISTORIC"
 
-# 1999-2010
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2010 = "CVE-1999-0524 CVE-1999-0656 CVE-2006-2932 CVE-2007-2764 CVE-2007-4998 CVE-2008-2544 \
-                          CVE-2008-4609 CVE-2010-0298 CVE-2010-4563"
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2010[status] = "ignored"
-
-# 2011-2017
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2017 = "CVE-2011-0640 CVE-2014-2648 CVE-2014-8171 CVE-2016-0774 CVE-2016-3695 CVE-2016-3699 \
-                          CVE-2017-1000255 CVE-2017-1000377 CVE-2017-5897 CVE-2017-6264"
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2017[status] = "ignored"
-
-# 2018
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2018 = "CVE-2018-1000026 CVE-2018-10840 CVE-2018-10876 CVE-2018-10882 CVE-2018-10901 CVE-2018-10902 \
-                           CVE-2018-14625 CVE-2018-16880 CVE-2018-16884 CVE-2018-5873"
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2018[status] = "ignored"
-
-# 2020
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2020 = "CVE-2020-10732 CVE-2020-10742 CVE-2020-16119 CVE-2020-1749 CVE-2020-25672 CVE-2020-27820 CVE-2020-35501 CVE-2020-8834"
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2020[status] = "ignored"
-
-# 2021
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2021 = "CVE-2021-20194 CVE-2021-20226 CVE-2021-20265 CVE-2021-3564 CVE-2021-3743 CVE-2021-3847 CVE-2021-4002 \
-                          CVE-2021-4090 CVE-2021-4095 CVE-2021-4197 CVE-2021-4202 CVE-2021-44879 CVE-2021-45402"
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2021[status] = "ignored"
-
-# 2022
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2022 = "CVE-2022-0185 CVE-2022-0264 CVE-2022-0286 CVE-2022-0330 CVE-2022-0382 CVE-2022-0433 CVE-2022-0435 \
-                          CVE-2022-0492 CVE-2022-0494 CVE-2022-0500 CVE-2022-0516 CVE-2022-0617 CVE-2022-0742 CVE-2022-0854 \
-                          CVE-2022-0995 CVE-2022-0998 CVE-2022-1011 CVE-2022-1015 CVE-2022-1048 CVE-2022-1055 CVE-2022-1195 \
-                          CVE-2022-1353 CVE-2022-24122 CVE-2022-24448 CVE-2022-24958 CVE-2022-24959 CVE-2022-25258 CVE-2022-25265 \
-                          CVE-2022-25375 CVE-2022-26490 CVE-2022-26878 CVE-2022-26966 CVE-2022-27223 CVE-2022-27666 CVE-2022-27950 \
-                          CVE-2022-28356 CVE-2022-28388 CVE-2022-28389 CVE-2022-28390 CVE-2022-28796 CVE-2022-28893 CVE-2022-29156 \
-                          CVE-2022-29582 CVE-2022-29968"
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_2022[status] = "ignored"
+CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_HISTORIC = "CVE-1999-0524 CVE-1999-0656 CVE-2006-2932 CVE-2007-2764 CVE-2007-4998 \ 
+                              CVE-2008-2544 CVE-2008-4609 CVE-2010-0298 CVE-2010-4563 CVE-2011-0640 \
+                              CVE-2014-2648 CVE-2016-0774 CVE-2016-3695 CVE-2016-3699 CVE-2017-1000377 \
+                              CVE-2017-6264"
+CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_HISTORIC[status] = "ignored"
 
 
 # https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3563