CVE-2018-13844

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.9-2`
sid	Fixed	`1.9-2`
forky	Fixed	`1.9-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.9-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.9-2`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-13844

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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