| Name | CVE-2018-13844 |
| Description | An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in fai_read in faidx.c. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| htslib (PTS) | stretch | 1.3.2-2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.9-11 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid | 1.11-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| htslib | source | (unstable) | 1.9-2 | low | | |
Notes
[stretch] - htslib <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - htslib <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issuecomment-403675330