CVE-2023-4949

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    CVE-2023-4949

    Published: 10 Nov 2023Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-443.html

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    Low
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    User Interaction
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    Required
    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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