Medium
grub — security advisory
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
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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