CVE-2018-13844

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

1%p72

Published

Jul 10, 2018 (Jul 10, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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

Vendors: htslib
Products: htslib
Weakness: CWE-401
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.4%)

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