CVE-2019-10269 — Out-of-bounds Write in Aligner Project Burrow-wheeler Aligner

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write9 documents6 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Burrow-wheeler Aligner Project Burrow-wheeler AlignerDebian BWACanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedMar 29
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/bwa< bwa 0.7.17-3 (bookworm)

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 18.04, 19.04

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-m963-mf5c-ghpm: BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the bns_restore function in bntseq↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2019-10269: BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the bns_restore function in bntseq↗2019-03-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
BWA vulnerability↗2021-03-15
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Ubuntu
BWA vulnerability↗2019-08-06
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Debian
CVE-2019-10269: bwa - BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 has a stack-based buffer over...↗2019
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-10269 bwa: stack-based buffer overflow in function bns_restore in fucntion bntseq.c [fedora-all]↗2019-04-03
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-10269 bwa: stack-based buffer overflow in function bns_restore in fucntion bntseq.c [epel-all]↗2019-04-03
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-10269 bwa: stack-based buffer overflow in function bns_restore in fucntion bntseq.c↗2019-04-03
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