Htslib Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-13843

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...

CVE-2018-13844

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...

CVE-2020-36403

HTSlib through 1.10.2 allows out-of-bounds write access in vcf_parse_format (called from vcf_parse and...

CVE-2017-1000206

samtools htslib library version 1.4.0 and earlier is vulnerable to buffer overflow in the CRAM rANS codec resulting in potential arbitrary code...

CVE-2018-14329

In HTSlib 1.8, a race condition in cram/cram_io.c might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink...

CVE-2018-13845

An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a buffer over-read in sam_parse1 in...