CVE-2018-13844

An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in fairead 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 faiload in their own code...

CVE-2018-13844

HTSlib 1.8 contains a memory leak in fai_read (faidx.c). The issue is disputed: some sources attribute it to the test harness rather than HTSlib, and users are warned to destruct the object returned by fai_load() in their code. Concrete vulnerability details such as exploit vectors, affected vers...