CVE-2020-36403

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36403
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36403.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-36403
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-07-01T03:15:07Z
Modified
2025-07-01T11:38:00.828938Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

HTSlib through 1.10.2 allows out-of-bounds write access in vcfparseformat (called from vcfparse and vcfread).

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / htslib

Package

Name
htslib
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/htslib?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.11-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / htslib

Package

Name
htslib
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/htslib?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.11-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / htslib

Package

Name
htslib
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/htslib?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.11-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/samtools/htslib

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/samtools/htslib
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
dcd4b7304941a8832fba2d0fc4c1e716e7a4e72c

Affected versions

0.*

0.2.0-rc1
0.2.0-rc10
0.2.0-rc11
0.2.0-rc12
0.2.0-rc2
0.2.0-rc3
0.2.0-rc4
0.2.0-rc5
0.2.0-rc6
0.2.0-rc7
0.2.0-rc8
0.2.0-rc9

1.*

1.0
1.1
1.10
1.10.1
1.10.2
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
1.9

Other

stable1
stable2
vcf-direct-final