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Reports on which security advisories may be relevant for a given system or derivation
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False positive: CVE-2021-26720 in avahi #12

Open raboof opened 9 months ago

raboof commented 9 months ago

Running the local scanner on the testcase at https://github.com/Nix-Security-WG/nix-security-tracker/tree/c35f957fc02b101ee06eb5096d7f05cd87e539d73be45b19d4b97520173c48defa4c6747156d6dcf, it reports CVE-2021-26720 in avahi.

This issue only affects Debian (and SUSE), which is not possible to see from the advisory metadata. We should probably use the mechanism in Nix-Security-WG/nix-local-security-scanner#51 to override the severity of this issue to none for nixpkgs.

raboof commented 9 months ago

Tested with fake data that this looks like it now works, but let's leave it open until we actually have populated the production online scanner with this particular case