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