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CVE-2018-13843

7.5 highEPSS 1.5%

High (7.5) in htslib htslib. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-772
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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