CVE-2023-4949

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.1
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Grub
PublishedNov 10, 2023
First seenNov 10, 2023

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu grubv ≤ 0.97—
xen xenNo range specified—

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