CVE-2019-10269

CRITICAL

Burrow-wheeler Aligner < 2019-01-23 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: rule

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.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/lh3/bwa/pull/232

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://coreymhudson.github.io/bwa_vulnerabilties/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4087-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0072

EPSS Percentile 72.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-787

Status published

Products (3)

burrow-wheeler_aligner_project/burrow-wheeler_aligner < 2019-01-23

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04

Published Mar 29, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026