| Name | CVE-2025-40906 |
| Description | BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities. Those include CVE-2017-14227, CVE-2018-16790, CVE-2023-0437, CVE-2024-6381, CVE-2024-6383, and CVE-2025-0755. BSON-XS was the official Perl XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization, but this distribution has reached its end of life as of August 13, 2020 and is no longer supported. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| libbson-xs-perl (PTS) | bullseye | 0.8.4-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 0.8.4-1+deb11u1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm | 0.8.4-2+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libbson-xs-perl | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant |
https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/29655123/
The CVE assignment is specific to BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 bundling libbson 1.1.7
with several CVEs affected. Fixes for those were covered in the corresponding
CVEs.