CVE-2018-13844

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in fai_read in faidx.c. NOTE: This has been disputed with the assertion that this vulnerability exists in the test harness and HTSlib users would be aware of the need to destruct this object returned by fai_load() in their own code

Affected products

samtools htslib: 1.8

References

https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403675330
https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403675330

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