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DEBIAN-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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 htslib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9-2"}]}]

Debian:13 htslib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9-2"}]}]

Debian:14 htslib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org