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CVE-2018-13844

An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8.

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v3.1 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.4%
percentile 73%
Public exploits
0
none known

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

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.44% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.17.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

  • github.com /samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403675330 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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