CVE-2019-10269

Critical

Description

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductBurrow-wheeler Aligner
PublishedMar 29, 2019
First seenMar 29, 2019

How to fix

Update
  • burrow-wheeler_aligner_project burrow-wheeler_aligner2019-01-23 or later
Vendor advisories

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
burrow-wheeler_aligner_project burrow-wheeler_alignerv < 2019-01-232019-01-23
canonical ubuntu_linux18.04, 19.04—

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