Buffer overflow in Samtools Htslib

CVE-2026-31963

HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. As one method of removing redundant data, CRAM uses reference-based compression so that instead…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.001 (19.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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