Hi Holger,

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 09:41:42PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> hi Salvatore!
> 
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 10:19:51PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > This is the corresponding removal request for libnet-easytcp-perl from
> > stable, relating to #1093385 for unstable and testing.
> > 
> > libnet-easytcp-perl has security issues (CVE-2024-56830, note not the
> > same as CVE-2002-20002) where it fallsback to Perl's builtin rand() if
> > no strong randomization module is present, and Crypt::Random is not
> > packaged and used.
> > 
> > Furthermore is upstream basically unmaintained, the last version was
> > 0.26 from 2004.
> > 
> > Additionally it has low popcon, so I think it is affordable for
> > removal.
>  
> should this be communicated via src:debian-security-support as well?

Yes maybe additionally to the removal from bookworm in the next point
release this should be marked as well as unsupported, I have done a MR
for debian-security-support:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-security-support/-/merge_requests/34

Adding Moritz to get an ack/peer review.

Regards,
Salvatore

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