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Status published
High
CVE-2023-4949
Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Grub-Legacy's XFS Implementation
Vulnerability Description
An attacker with local access to a system (either through a disk or external drive) can present a modified XFS partition to grub-legacy in such a way to exploit a memory corruption in grub’s XFS file system implementation.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
Free Software Foundation
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Grub-Legacy
Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
November 10th, 2023
Last Modified:
September 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H