USN-4501-1

It was discovered that an out-of-bounds read existed in LuaJIT. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2020-15890)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / luajit

Package

Name: luajit
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/luajit@2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.0.4+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libluajit-5.1-2",
            "binary_version": "2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libluajit-5.1-common",
            "binary_version": "2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libluajit-5.1-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "luajit",
            "binary_version": "2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "low",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-15890"
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4501-1.json"