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CVE-2023-4949 Details

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.

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]
CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer[email protected]
CWE-190Integer Overflow or Wraparound[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gnu grub
<= 0.97

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grub:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
xen xen
All versions

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-4949
NVD Published Date:
Nov 10, 2023
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2023-4949 Details - Not Deferred