High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Nov 10, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-4949
CVE-2023-4949
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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Affected products
2- Free Software Foundation/Grub-Legacyv5Range: 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-443.htmlnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
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