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OESA-2022-1963 (CVE-2020-36403)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2022-09-23 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

htslib security update

Details

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. HTSlib implements a generalized BAM index, with file extension .csi ( coordinate-sorted index). The HTSlib file reader first looks for the new index and then for the old if the new index is absent.

Security Fix(es):

HTSlib through 1.10.2 allows out-of-bounds write access in vcf_parse_format (called from vcf_parse and vcf_read).(CVE-2020-36403)

Severity

8.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36403	ADVISORY

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  ]
}

CVE-2020-36403 (GCVE-0-2020-36403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-01 02:51 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:23

Summary

HTSlib through 1.10.2 allows out-of-bounds write access in vcf_parse_format (called from vcf_parse and vcf_read).

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detai…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/samtools/htslib/commit/dcd4b73…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/mai…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/samtools/htslib/pull/1447	x_refsource_MISC

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