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grub — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949

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.

Products
grub
Affected versions
0.97-80, 0.97-81, 0.97-82, 0.97-83, 0.97-84
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2023-4949
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:12 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Nov 2023, 17:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949

grub

Fixed versions: Not specified

grub

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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  "id": "4ca75715bf6dbae6541a08d9598e8d48fac633d3cb002849741802650c505472",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "grub",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "0.97-80",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "0.97-81",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "0.97-82",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "0.97-83",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "0.97-84",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "grub",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
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            "value": "0.97-84",
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          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "events": [
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                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "grub",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/grub?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
          "versions": [
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            "0.97-81",
            "0.97-82",
            "0.97-83",
            "0.97-84"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "unimportant"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
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                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "grub",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/grub?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
          "versions": [
            "0.97-84"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "unimportant"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T18:02:50.900131422Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2023-4949"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4949"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-4949",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 456990,
  "published_at": "2023-11-10T17:15:07.57+00:00"
}