DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13844

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13844

    Published: 10 Jul 2018Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-13844

    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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-13844

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: htslib

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/htslib?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.9-2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High