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Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
  https://metacpan.org/release/Web-API failed: 500 read timeout

Created: 2025-06-28 Last update: 2025-06-30 10:33

1 security issue in trixie high

1 important issue:

CVE-2024-57868: Web::API 2.8 and earlier for Perl uses the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions. Specifically Web::API uses the Data::Random library which specifically states that it is "Useful mostly for test programs". Data::Random uses the rand() function.

Created: 2025-04-05 Last update: 2025-04-20 03:00

1 security issue in sid high

1 important issue:

CVE-2024-57868: Web::API 2.8 and earlier for Perl uses the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions. Specifically Web::API uses the Data::Random library which specifically states that it is "Useful mostly for test programs". Data::Random uses the rand() function.

Created: 2025-04-05 Last update: 2025-04-20 03:00

1 low-priority security issue in bookworm low

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2024-57868: (needs triaging) Web::API 2.8 and earlier for Perl uses the rand() function as the default source of entropy, which is not cryptographically secure, for cryptographic functions. Specifically Web::API uses the Data::Random library which specifically states that it is "Useful mostly for test programs". Data::Random uses the rand() function.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2025-04-05 Last update: 2025-04-20 03:00

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 1 debian patch available in version 2.8-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-08-26 Last update: 2024-04-14 11:03

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:24

[2024-04-16] libweb-api-perl 2.8-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-13] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.8-1 (source) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2023-08-28] libweb-api-perl 2.7-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-08-25] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.7-3 (source) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2022-12-07] libweb-api-perl 2.7-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-12-04] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.7-2 (source) into unstable (Jelmer Vernooĳ) (signed by: Jelmer Vernooij)
[2020-05-06] libweb-api-perl 2.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-03] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.7-1 (source) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2019-12-02] libweb-api-perl 2.6-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-11-29] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.6-1 (source) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2019-11-23] libweb-api-perl 2.5-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-11-20] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.5-1 (source) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2019-02-01] libweb-api-perl 2.4.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-01-17] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.4.1-1 (source) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2019-01-04] Accepted libweb-api-perl 2.3-1 (source) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2018-02-19] libweb-api-perl 2.2.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

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