Memory Leak in HTSlib 1.8's bgzf_getline Function

CVE-2018-13843 · MEDIUM Severity

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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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