cve-update-db-native: improve metadata parsing

The metadata parser is fragile: first it coerces a bytes() to a str() (so the
string is b'LastModifiedDate:2019...'), assumes the first line is the date, and
then uses a regex to parse (which then includes the trailing quote as part of
the date).

Clean this up by parsing the bytes as UTF-8 (ASCII is probably fine, but this is
safer), iterate through the lines and split on colons to find the right
key/value pair.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-db-native.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-db-native.bb
index 09e19c0aae..41a2aa8f20 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-db-native.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-db-native.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ python do_populate_cve_db() {
     Update NVD database with json data feed
     """
 
-    import sqlite3, urllib, shutil, gzip, re
+    import sqlite3, urllib, shutil, gzip
     from datetime import date
 
     BASE_URL = "https://nvd.nist.gov/feeds/json/cve/1.0/nvdcve-1.0-"
@@ -52,13 +52,15 @@ python do_populate_cve_db() {
         req = urllib.request.Request(meta_url)
         if proxy:
             req.set_proxy(proxy, 'https')
-        try:
-            with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=1) as r:
-                date_line = str(r.read().splitlines()[0])
-                last_modified = re.search('lastModifiedDate:(.*)', date_line).group(1)
-        except:
-            cve_f.write('Warning: CVE db update error, CVE data is outdated.\n\n')
-            break
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as r:
+            for l in r.read().decode("utf-8").splitlines():
+                key, value = l.split(":", 1)
+                if key == "lastModifiedDate":
+                    last_modified = value
+                    break
+            else:
+                bb.warn("Cannot parse CVE metadata, update failed")
+                return
 
         # Compare with current db last modified date
         c.execute("select DATE from META where YEAR = ?", (year,))