VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-13843
It is a memory leak in bgzf_getline in bgzf.c.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.47%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.47% probability · 72th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-772
- Affected
- htslib/htslib
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issue-339662537Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issue-339662537Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.