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Ubuntu: USN-4802-1 (CVE-2017-1000206): HTSlib vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4802-1 (CVE-2017-1000206): HTSlib vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/17/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

samtools htslib library version 1.4.0 and earlier is vulnerable to buffer overflow in the CRAM rANS codec resulting in potential arbitrary code execution

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhts0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhts1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhts2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tabix

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