{"id":"CVE-2018-13843","details":"An issue has been found in HTSlib 1.8. It is a memory leak in bgzf_getline in bgzf.c. NOTE: the software maintainer's position is that the \"failure to free memory\" can be fixed in applications that use the HTSlib library (such as test/test_bgzf.c in the original report) and is not a library issue","modified":"2026-04-10T04:05:25.572169Z","published":"2018-07-10T18:29:00.407Z","references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/731#issue-339662537"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/samtools/htslib","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"be22a2a1082f6e570718439b9ace2db17a609eae"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.8"}]}}],"versions":["1.0","1.1","1.2","1.2.1","1.3","1.3.1","1.3.2","1.4","1.4.1","1.5","1.6","1.7","1.8","stable1","stable2","vcf-direct-final"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-13843.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}