DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949

    Published: 10 Nov 2023Last Modified: 15 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-4949

    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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4949

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: grub

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/grub?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.97-80

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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