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CVE-2023-4949 (GCVE-0-2023-4949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-10 16:57 – Updated: 2024-09-03 17:29
VLAI
Title
Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Grub-Legacy's XFS Implementation
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-03 17:28 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Free Software Foundation Grub-Legacy Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.97 (git)
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