Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bwa  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-BWA-644693
  • published29 Mar 2019
  • disclosed29 Mar 2019

Introduced: 29 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-10269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bwa package and not the bwa package as distributed by Ubuntu.

BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the bns_restore function in bntseq.c via a long sequence name in a .alt file.