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Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)

CVE History

CVEPublishedCVSS v3CVSS v2
7.5 HIGH

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.

9.8 CRITICAL10 HIGH

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.