VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-13843

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.47%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-10
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

Weakness classification

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

Primary references