CVE-2026-31972

A flaw was found in SAMtools. During the mpileup command, data could be prematurely discarded, leading to an attempt to read from memory that has already been freed. This use-after-free vulnerability may allow for the disclosure of sensitive program state information or cause the program to crash...

CVE-2026-31973

A flaw was found in SAMtools. In the cram-size command, a missing check for the return value of the cramdecodecompressionheader function can lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could exploit this by providing a specially crafted CRAM file. This vulnerability typically causes the progr...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-31973

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-31972

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. The mpileup command outputs DNA sequences that have been aligned agains...

Fedora 45 : bcftools / htslib / samtools (2026-c383d4a134)

The remote Fedora 45 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-c383d4a134 advisory. Update to 1.23.1 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested f...

CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31972

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. The mpileup command outputs DNA sequences that have been aligned against a known reference. On each output line it writes the reference position, optionally the reference DNA base at that position obtained fr...

CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

CVE-2026-31972

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. The mpileup command outputs DNA sequences that have been aligned against a known reference. On each output line it writes the reference position, optionally the reference DNA base at that position obtained fr...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31972

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. The mpileup command outputs DNA sequences that have been aligned against a known reference. On each output line it writes the reference position, optionally the reference DNA base at that position obtained fr...

CVE-2026-31973 NULL pointer dereference in samtools cram-size

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

CVE-2026-31973 NULL pointer dereference in samtools cram-size

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

CVE-2026-31973 NULL pointer dereference in samtools cram-size

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the "cramdecodecompressionheader" was missing. If the function returne...

CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools includes a NULL pointer dereference in the cram-size path of CRAM header handling: if cram_decode_compression_header() returns an error, a NULL pointer dereference may occur, crashing the program. This affects 1.17+ before fixes. The available connected advisories confirm fixes in versio...

EUVD-2026-12958

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompressionheader was missing. If the function returned ...

CVE-2026-31972

SAMtools mpileup contains a memory-management bug where reference data could be discarded too early, causing use-after-free reads. This could leak information about program state and may crash the process. The issue is fixed in SAMtools versions 1.21.1 and 1.22. No exploit details are provided in...