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CVE-2017-1000206

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

samtools htslib library version 1.4.0 and earlier is vulnerable to buffer overflow in the CRAM rANS codec resulting in potential arbitrary code execution

Affected products

• samtools htslib: through 1.4.0

References

• https://github.com/samtools/htslib/blob/1.4.1/NEWS
• https://github.com/samtools/htslib/blob/1.4.1/NEWS

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