CVE-2026-31970 HTSlib BGZF index file reader has a heap buffer overflow

HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. GZI files are used to index block-compressed GZIP BGZF files. In the GZI loading function, bgzfindexloadhfile, it was possible to trigger an integer overflow, leading to an under- or zero-sized buffer being allocated to stor...

CVE-2026-31970 HTSlib BGZF index file reader has a heap buffer overflow

HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. GZI files are used to index block-compressed GZIP BGZF files. In the GZI loading function, bgzfindexloadhfile, it was possible to trigger an integer overflow, leading to an under- or zero-sized buffer being allocated to stor...