CVE-2019-11371

CRITICAL

BWA 0.7.17 r1198 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/lh3/bwa/issues/239

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0159
EPSS Percentile 72.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
burrow-wheeler_aligner_project/burrow-wheeler_aligner 0.7.17 r1198
Published Apr 20, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026