HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. In the `cram_decode_slice()` function called while reading CRAM records, validation of the reference id field occurred too late, allowing two out of bounds reads to occur before the invalid data was detected. The bug does allow two values to be leaked to the caller, however as the function reports an error it may be difficult to exploit them. It is also possible that the program will crash due to trying to access invalid memory. Versions 1.23.1, 1.22.2 and 1.21.1 include fixes for this issue. There is no workaround for this issue.
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| Description | HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. In the `cram_decode_slice()` function called while reading CRAM records, validation of the reference id field occurred too late, allowing two out of bounds reads to occur before the invalid data was detected. The bug does allow two values to be leaked to the caller, however as the function reports an error it may be difficult to exploit them. It is also possible that the program will crash due to trying to access invalid memory. Versions 1.23.1, 1.22.2 and 1.21.1 include fixes for this issue. There is no workaround for this issue. | |
| Title | HTSlib CRAM reader has out-of-bounds reads due to improper validation of input | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-125 CWE-129 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-18T18:50:37.333Z
Reserved: 2026-03-10T15:40:10.484Z
Link: CVE-2026-31965
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-18T19:16:04.823
Modified: 2026-03-18T19:16:04.823
Link: CVE-2026-31965
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