deps_builder: Add support for cve-bin-tool
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Authored by Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) on Oct 5 2022, 10:19 PM.

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Brecht Van Lommel (brecht)
Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren)

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rB2db9bfb6d884: deps_builder: Add support for cve-bin-tool
rB9b8be81eef93: deps_builder: Add support for cve-bin-tool

Summary

The CVE Binary Tool is a free, open source tool to help you find known vulnerabilities in software, using data from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) list of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).

This change adds all known CPE's (unique identifier for a software component) for our deps and adds a little bit of tooling to make running cve-bin-tool a easier. No attempt is made to manage the issues reported (one can mitigate/ignore/etc issues, but no tooling is provided in this diff for this).

cve-bin-tool uses the NVD database, which unless you have an API key limits you to 1 request per 6 seconds, it is highly recommended for platform maintainers to get a key over at

https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/request-an-api-key

as it would significantly decrease the time needed to download/update the databases required. once obtained, pass it to cmake using -DNVD_KEY=your_api_key

then you can just run the newly made targets by either running

make cve_check

or running

make cve_check_html

No attempt is currently made to locate cve-bin-tool and it is assumed to be available in the path, for installation instructions see the cve-bin-tool project page on github (TL;DR: pip instal cve-bin-tool)

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rB Blender

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tmp_cve_bin_tool (branched from master)

Build Status

Buildable 24138
Build 24138: arc lint + arc unit

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Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) requested review of this revision.Oct 5 2022, 10:19 PM

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) created this revision.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B24138: Diff 56504.Oct 5 2022, 10:19 PM

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Oct 5 2022, 10:29 PM

Seems simple enough.

build_files/build_environment/bom.json.in
1	Can this be named `cve_check_bom.json.in` and move into the `cmake` folder next to `cve_check.cmake`? Otherwise not obvious what this file is doing here.
build_files/build_environment/cmake/cve_check.cmake
5	These lines are all terminated very short, why not use at least 79 chars wide?
62	Rename this variable to `CVE_CHECK_NVD_KEY`?
build_files/build_environment/cmake/versions.cmake
17	I don't understand what all this `cpe:2.3:a` and `:::::::*` means. Unless I'm missing something, it's not even using that and only getting the vendor/library/version from this?

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Oct 6 2022, 1:02 PM

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) added inline comments.Oct 6 2022, 2:52 PM

build_files/build_environment/cmake/versions.cmake
17	it's a standarized URI essentially full specifications, in `cpe:2.3: part : vendor : product : version : update : edition : language : sw_edition : target_sw : target_hw : other` format i picked this format for some reasons You have to know the exact vendor and product fields for a successful match, which you can only lookup in the NVE database, which gives you the CPE. There is no mistake where this information comes from or what the source of the information is or what standard it adheres to. They are kinda scary looking, if we had vendor/product/version fields one would be more likely to "wing it" this one you know have to look up. I liked it was a single line, contains all information, keeping versions.cmake neat Downsides: while cve-bin-tool allows you to specify the CPE in a cyclonedx bom, it's not using it for matching so we have to do a little work there.

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) added inline comments.Oct 6 2022, 4:57 PM

build_files/build_environment/cmake/versions.cmake
17	Ok, seems fine to have this then.

fix comment length
move template file to the cmake folder, with a more appropriate name
move to using a CSV file since the json bom somehow missed some CVE's and i'm not entirely sure why.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B24161: Diff 56548.Oct 6 2022, 6:09 PM