Hi Adrian,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:04:31AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 10:12:03PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> >...
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 04:58:15PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Package: libbson-xs-perl
> > > Version: 0.8.4-3
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Tags: security
> > > X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
> > > 
> > > https://metacpan.org/dist/BSON-XS
> > > 
> > >  Changes for version v0.8.4 - 2020-08-13
> > >     !!! END OF LIFE NOTICE !!!
> > >         As of August 13, 2020, the BSON-XS library has reached end of 
> > > life and is no longer supported by MongoDB.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The security aspect of this bug is that some/all of the bson CVEs
> > > against mongo-c-driver might also apply to the copy of the bson code
> > > in libbson-xs-perl.
> > > 
> > > An alternative solution for the latter might be patching the source to
> > > build with libbson-dev.
> > 
> > "Ideally" the removal would be the right choice gien the
> > deprecation/end-of-life, but I fear that is not possible at this stage
> > in the freeze. libmongodb-perl has AFAICS a depends on libbson-xs-perl
> 
> Recommends, as performance optimization compared to the pure-Perl 
> libbson-perl.

Yes right, thanks for spotting and the correction.

> The build dependency is !nocheck, and the tests pass for me without 
> libbson-xs-perl.
> 
> > and libmongodb-perl has some reverse dependencies.
> 
> libmongodb-perl and libbson-perl are also EOL, but AFAIK removing
> just libbson-xs-perl would only have a performance impact for rdeps.
> 
> > gregor, yadd, any opinions from you here?

So might indeed be more feasible.

Regards,
Salvatore

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