vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-11371: bwa -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 20, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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