Out-of-bounds Write Affecting bio-bwa package, versions [,2019-01-23)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.91% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIOBWA-2380273
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Mar 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade bio-bwa to version 2019-01-23 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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