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Alpine Linux has a separate repo where they reject CVEs that don't merit further investigation or being tagged in their build system, such as CVEs that are disputed upstream, or affect a package that coincidentally has the same name as an APK. Previously, these extra rejections were missed by vunnel, resulting in false positives in Grype. Therefore, pull in these packages and emit NAKs for them for every Alpine version. Signed-off-by: Will Murphy <[email protected]>
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| The security-rejections repository contains CVEs that Alpine has determined | ||
| do not affect Alpine packages (false positives). These are emitted as NAK | ||
| entries with Version: "0" to filter NVD CPE matches. |
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APK NAKs need to have a constraint of < 0, I don't see where this may be added to the record, am I missing it or does it need to be added?
Or do these records end up in the unaffected_package_handles table somehow?
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https://github.com/anchore/vunnel/pull/1023/changes#diff-cc0e41fc1b8dbbc321e0b3fad2934e3d89f124428fa78675df7502f3357c887cR335 adds the fix 0 to the record. These are handled the same way as other Alpine NAKs, just from a different source.
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Ah, got it -- it's a fix version of 0 which implies "vulnerable constraint" < 0 👍
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Alpine Linux has a separate repo where they reject CVEs that don't merit
further investigation or being tagged in their build system, such as
CVEs that are disputed upstream, or affect a package that coincidentally
has the same name as an APK. Previously, these extra rejections were
missed by vunnel, resulting in false positives in Grype. Therefore, pull
in these packages and emit NAKs for them for every Alpine version.
Fixes #1012