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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-10269): BWA vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-10269): BWA vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/29/2019
Created
08/09/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bwa

References

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