CVE-2018-13843

HIGH

Htslib - Resource Leak

Title source: rule

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 58.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-772
Status published

Affected Products (1)

htslib/htslib

Timeline

Published Jul 10, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026