CVE-2018-13844

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    CVE-2018-13844

    Published: 10 Jul 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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

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

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- be22a2a1082f6e570718439b9ace2db17a609eae
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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