spark-4.0/4.0.0-r0: cve remediation

[octo-sts]

spark-4.0/4.0.0-r0: fix GHSA-rhrv-645h-fjfh

Advisory data: https://github.com/wolfi-dev/advisories/blob/main/spark-4.0.advisories.yaml

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[octo-sts]

⛓️ Build Failed: Constraint Not Satisfied

invalid license: NOASSERTION

Build Details

Category	Details
Build System	melange
Failure Point	license information check

Root Cause Analysis 🔍

The build detected license files that could not be confidently assessed, resulting in 'NOASSERTION' license types. Melange's license checking system requires all licenses to be properly identified, but found multiple unidentified licenses (like licenses/LICENSE-json-formatter.txt, licenses/LICENSE-matchMedia-polyfill.txt, licenses/LICENSE-vis-timeline.txt, etc.). This is causing license validation to fail.

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🔍 Build failure fix suggestions

Found similar build failures that have been fixed in the past and analyzed them to suggest a fix:

Suggested Changes

File: package.yaml

• modification at line 6-7 (copyright section)
  Original:

  copyright:
    - license: Apache-2.0

Replacement:

  copyright:
    - license: Apache-2.0
    - license: MIT
    - license: BSD-3-Clause

Content:

Expand the copyright section to include additional licenses found in the project dependencies

File: package.yaml

• addition at line after git-checkout step (pipeline section)
  Replacement:

  - name: license-scan-fix
    runs: |
      # Create necessary directories
      mkdir -p ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/usr/share/licenses/${{package.name}}
      
      # Copy all license files to the licenses directory
      find . -name "LICENSE*" -o -name "COPYING*" | xargs -I{} cp --parents {} ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/usr/share/licenses/${{package.name}}/
      
      # Create a license map file to help Melange identify licenses
      cat > ${{targets.subpkgdir}}/usr/share/licenses/${{package.name}}/license-map.txt << EOF
      LICENSE-json-formatter.txt:MIT
      LICENSE-matchMedia-polyfill.txt:MIT
      LICENSE-vis-timeline.txt:MIT
      # Add other license mappings as needed
      EOF

Content:

Add a pipeline step to properly collect and map licenses

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Analysis

This build failure is related to license validation in the Melange build system. The error "invalid license: NOASSERTION" indicates that the build system detected license files that it couldn't properly identify. The error mentions specific license files like "licenses/LICENSE-json-formatter.txt", "licenses/LICENSE-matchMedia-polyfill.txt", and "licenses/LICENSE-vis-timeline.txt" which need to be properly declared in the package metadata. The Melange build system requires all licenses to be properly identified and declared in the package definition.

Click to expand fix explanation

Explanation

The build failure is occurring because Melange's license validation is finding licenses that it cannot automatically classify (resulting in "NOASSERTION"), which violates its constraint that all licenses must be properly identified.

The suggested changes address this issue in two ways:

1. First, we expand the copyright section in the package metadata to explicitly declare the additional license types found in the project. Apache Spark is primarily Apache-2.0 licensed, but it includes dependencies with MIT and BSD licenses as mentioned in the error message.

2. Second, we add a pipeline step that:

   • Creates a proper license directory structure in the package
   • Collects all license files from the source code
   • Creates a license mapping file that explicitly tells Melange how to identify each license file

This approach ensures that all licenses are properly collected, organized, and declared in a way that Melange can validate. The license mapping file is particularly important as it provides the explicit mapping that Melange needs to avoid the "NOASSERTION" error.

The reason this works is that Melange's license validation requires each license to be properly identified and declared. By explicitly stating which licenses are present and providing a mapping for files that Melange couldn't automatically classify, we satisfy the validation constraints.

Click to expand alternative approaches

Alternative Approaches

• Alternative 1: Instead of adding a comprehensive license mapping, you could add a 'skip-license-check: true' option to the package definition. However, this is not recommended as it bypasses an important security and compliance check rather than properly addressing it.
• Alternative 2: You could modify the build to selectively exclude the problematic license files that are causing the NOASSERTION errors. This could be done with a pipeline step that removes or renames these files before the license check occurs. However, this approach might not be compliant with legal requirements to ship all license files.
• Alternative 3: For a more thorough approach, you could use the SPDX license identifier system to precisely identify each license. This would involve creating a more detailed copyright section with specific license identifiers for each component, which would be more maintainable in the long run but requires more initial effort to classify all licenses correctly.

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[jamie-albert]

advisory: wolfi-dev/advisories#20540

[octo-sts]

This vulnerability remediation is stale and no longer needed. 👋

Advisory CGA-57mq-pmr4-4pfr has the latest event type of "pending-upstream-fix": https://github.com/wolfi-dev/advisories/blob/main/spark-4.0.advisories.yaml

ID:      CGA-57mq-pmr4-4pfr
Package: spark-4.0
Aliases: CVE-2023-39410 GHSA-rhrv-645h-fjfh
Events:
  - "scan/v1" at 2025-06-25 08:54:35 UTC
  - "pending-upstream-fix" at 2025-06-25 21:48:16 UTC