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CVE

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats.
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CVE

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31973

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats.

SAMtools is a program for reading, manipulating and writing bioinformatics file formats. Starting in version 1.17, in the cram-size command, used to write information about how well CRAM files are compressed, a check to see if the cramdecodecompression_header() was missing. If the function returned an error, this could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. Exploiting this bug causes a NULL pointer dereference. Typically this will cause the program to crash. 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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CVSS Version

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

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31973

Severity

7.5

CVSS Score
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10

Basic Information

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7.5
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