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CVE-2023-4949

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CVE-2023-4949

Published: Nov 10, 2023

Modified: Sep 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.1

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.

VendorProductVersions

Free Software Foundation

Grub-Legacy

affected
0 - <= 0.97

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

Low

Availability

High

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