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I like this bug report about pymongo (not the MongoDB core itself):

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532

Step 1. Use Mongo as WEB SCALE DOCUMENT STORE OF CHOICE LOL

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Step 7. DISCOVER PYMONGO DOES NOT CHECK RETURN VALUES IN MULTIPLE PLACES. DISCOVER ORIGINAL AUTHOR SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED NEAR COMPUTER

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One of the best bug reports I have ever read!

Only if you're a 5 year old. It's immature, unhelpful and generally pretty pathetic.

Lighten up. The submitter identified exactly the line and commit that enabled crashing all mongo deployments with a 16-byte post (I presume, from the report). Considering the circumstances, I congratulate the submitter on being so whimsical.

  if (strcmp(buffer + position + 5, "$ref") == 0) { / DBRef */

Seriously?

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