bug#47941: guix lint -c cve stacktrace

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:

> Using guix ae5128e21eb7afa66bd7cfd7fd1bc5764d00663e, the cve lint
> check fails when fetching the CVE database as follows:
>
> $ guix lint -c cve hello
> fetching CVE database for 2021...
> Backtrace:
>           15 (primitive-load "/home/jackhill/.config/guix/current/bi…")
> In guix/ui.scm:
>   2164:12 14 (run-guix-command _ . _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1736:10 13 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
>   1731:15 12 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 7f895ab7d000 at ic…> …)
> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>     634:9 11 (for-each #<procedure 7f895ab84d80 at guix/scripts/lin…> …)
> In guix/scripts/lint.scm:
>      65:4 10 (run-checkers _ _ #:store _)
> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>     634:9  9 (for-each #<procedure 7f895420bc00 at guix/scripts/lin…> …)
> In guix/scripts/lint.scm:
>     74:21  8 (_ _)
> In guix/lint.scm:
>    1178:4  7 (check-vulnerabilities _ _)
>    1170:9  6 (_ _)
> In unknown file:
>            5 (force #<promise #<procedure 7f895af13a88 at guix/lint.…>)
> In guix/lint.scm:
>    1153:2  4 (_)
>    1112:2  3 (call-with-networking-fail-safe _ _ _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1736:10  2 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
>   1669:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1667:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1667:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> Wrong type (expecting array): #f

Fixed:

  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=7dbc2fcb45fac4a0b64fef8efa8c858a047d0498

It looks like a couple of bogus CVE entries crept in.  It’s surprising
because we never encountered such issues before, so I wonder if MITRE
changed something on their side.

Thanks,
Ludo’.