Stack-based buffer overflow in BWA (Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 via long sequence name in .alt file

CVE-2019-10269 · CRITICAL Severity

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

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.

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