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(guix cve) discards configuration "vendor", leading to false positives

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re>
Cc: 40142 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40142: (guix cve) discards configuration "vendor", leading to false positives
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:38:16 +0200

Hi,

Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re> skribis:

> It looks like, for most free software the name of the software is used
> as
>  the vendor too, but I'm guessing that's not always the case in
> particular
>  when two project are using the same name. So we can't just filter the
>  entries where the vendor name isn't the name of the package or we could
>  end up with false negatives which seems worse than false positive for a
>  vulnerability checker.

Yeah.

> One solution would be to display the name of the vendor when it doesn't
> correspond to the name of the package. Such solution would still output
> false positives but at least it will be quicker to identify then as
> such,
> compared to looking up and reading trough each CVE.

Yes, though I think that (guix cve) should simply preserve the vendor
part, and leave it up to its user, ‘guix lint’, to display vendor
mismatches.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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