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-2026-31972 samtools mpileup has use-after-free leading to an invalid read

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-2026-31972

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...

EUVD-2026-12956

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-2026-31972 samtools mpileup has use-after-free leading to an invalid read

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...