Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vcftools (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-VCFTOOLS-644842
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed25 Jul 2019
Introduced: 25 Jul 2019
CVE-2019-1010127 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vcftools package and not the vcftools package as distributed by Ubuntu.
VCFTools vcftools prior to version 0.1.15 is affected by: Use-after-free. The impact is: Denial of Service or possibly other impact (eg. code execution or information disclosure). The component is: The header::add_FILTER_descriptor method in header.cpp. The attack vector is: The victim must open a specially crafted VCF file.