Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-11371

critical

CVE-2019-11371

BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) 0.7.17 r1198 has a Buffer Overflow vi ...

Published Modified CWE 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11bwano fix listed
debian 12bwano fix listed
debian 13bwano fix listed
debian 14bwano fix listed
echobwano fix listed
rapidfort debian 12bwano fix listed
rapidfort debian 13bwano fix listed
rapidfort ubuntu 20.04bwano fix listed
rapidfort ubuntu 22.04bwano fix listed
rapidfort ubuntu 24.04bwano fix listed
ubuntu 18.04-ESMbwano fix listed
ubuntu 20.04-ESMbwano fix listed
Show all 16 entries from 16 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11bwano fix listed
debian 12bwano fix listed
debian 13bwano fix listed
debian 14bwano fix listed
echobwano fix listed
rapidfort debian 12bwano fix listed
rapidfort debian 13bwano fix listed
rapidfort ubuntu 20.04bwano fix listed
rapidfort ubuntu 22.04bwano fix listed
rapidfort ubuntu 24.04bwano fix listed
ubuntu 18.04-ESMbwano fix listed
ubuntu 20.04-ESMbwano fix listed
ubuntu 22.04bwano fix listed
ubuntu 24.04bwano fix listed
ubuntu 26.04bwano fix listed
ubuntu 26.10bwano fix listed

References

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