debian · CVE-2018-13843

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:58:56 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-13843 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (htslib), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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

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