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High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-13844

CVE-2018-13844

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

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Affected products

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  • Samtools/HtslibOSV2 versions
    1.0, 1.1, 1.2, …+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, …
    • (no CPE)range: =1.8

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