CVE-2018-13844

Name	CVE-2018-13844
Description	DISPUTED 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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
htslib (PTS)	buster	1.9-12~deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye	1.11-4	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1.16+ds-3	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