wpa-supplicant: Ignore CVE-2024-5290

NVD CVE report [1] links Ubuntu bug [2] which has a very good
description/discussion about this issue.
It applies only to distros patching wpa-supplicant to allow non-root
users (e.g. via netdev group) to load modules.
This is not the case of Yocto.

Quote:
So upstream isn't vulnerable as they only expose the dbus interface to
root. Downstreams like Ubuntu and Chromium added a patch that grants
access to the netdev group. The patch is the problem, not the upstream
code IMHO.

There is also a commit [3] associated with this CVE, however that only
provides build-time configuration to limit paths which can be accessed
but it acts only as a mitigation for distros which allow non-root users
to load crafted modules.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5290
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2067613
[3] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=c84388ee4c66bcd310db57489eac4a75fc600747

Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb
index 70f1fd6fc91e0580f6aaaf693caf2b0c735ff294..696176907c36a1187a130e86b1ff244607e28218 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant_2.10.bb
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "20df7ae5154b3830355f8ab4269123a87affdea59fe74fe9292a91d0d7
 
 CVE_PRODUCT = "wpa_supplicant"
 
+# not-applicable-platform: this only affects Ubuntu and other platforms patching wpa-supplicant
+CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "CVE-2024-5290"
+
 S = "${WORKDIR}/wpa_supplicant-${PV}"
 
 PACKAGES:prepend = "wpa-supplicant-passphrase wpa-supplicant-cli "