OESA-2026-2547 htslib security update

HTSlib is an implementation of a unified C library for accessing common file formats, such as SAM, CRAM and VCF, used for high-throughput sequencing data, and is the core library used by samtools and bcftools. HTSlib only depends on zlib. It is known to be compatible with gcc, g++ and clang. HTSl...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31969

HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data using a variety of encodings and compression methods. When reading data encoded using the BYTEARRAYSTOP method, an out-by-one error in the...

EUVD-2026-12942

HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data using a variety of encodings and compression methods. For the VARINT and CONST encodings, incomplete validation of the context in which the encodings were...

CVE-2026-31966 HTSlib CRAM reader has out-of-bounds read due to improper validation of input

HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. As one method of removing redundant data, CRAM uses reference-based compression so that instead of storing the full sequence for each alignment record it...

HTSlib 安全漏洞

HTSlib is a C-language library developed by samtools. Versions of HTSlib prior to 1.23.1, 1.22.2, and 1.21.1 have security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem from the crambytearraylendecode function not verifying the amount of data, which may lead to heap buffer overflows or stack...

DEBIAN-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...

PT-2018-12216 · Htslib · Htslib

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: HTSlib version 1.8 Description: The issue is a memory leak in the bgzf getline function in bgzf.c. The software maintainer's position is that the "failure to free memory" can be fixed in applications that use the HTSlib library...