Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bwa  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2504-BWA-9816471
  • published26 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Apr 2019

Introduced: 20 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.04.

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) 0.7.17 r1198 has a Buffer Overflow via a long prefix that is mishandled in bns_fasta2bntseq and bns_dump at btnseq.c.