Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title BWA vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4087-1 First vendor Publication 2019-08-06
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-08-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

BWA could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - bwa: Software package for mapping DNA sequences against a large reference genome

Details:

It was discovered that Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) mishandled certain crafted .alt files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
bwa 0.7.17-3~ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
bwa 0.7.17-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4087-1
CVE-2019-10269

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bwa/0.7.17-3~ubuntu0.19.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bwa/0.7.17-1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4087-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Os 2

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Date Informations
2019-08-06 21:19:22
  • First insertion