VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-13844

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-10
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/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 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

Weakness classification

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

Primary references