Bug 2448847

Summary: CVE-2026-31965 htslib: HTSlib: Information disclosure or denial of service via out-of-bounds read in CRAM record processing [epel-8]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Praise Ogwuche <pogwuche>
Component: htslibAssignee: Rasmus Ory Nielsen <ron>
Status: ON_QA --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel8CC: jaruga, jmarshall, ron
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Description Praise Ogwuche 2026-03-18 20:41:46 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-03-19 19:00:00 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-74a1834691 (bcftools-1.23.1-1.el8, htslib-1.23.1-1.el8, and 1 more) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-74a1834691

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-03-20 01:56:51 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-74a1834691 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-74a1834691

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.