CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-13843

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-07-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-772

Description

An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in bgzf_getline in bgzf.c. NOTE: the software maintainer's position is that the "failure to free memory" can be fixed in applications that use the HTSlib library (such as test/test_bgzf.c in the original report) and is not a library issue

Affected configurations

• htslib htslib 1.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness

References