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.
References
Link Resource
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-443.html Patch Third Party Advisory
History

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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Google

Published: 2023-11-10T16:57:03.311Z

Updated: 2023-11-10T16:57:03.311Z

Reserved: 2023-09-13T15:42:48.056Z


Link: CVE-2023-4949

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-11-10T17:15:07.570

Modified: 2023-11-20T19:37:23.430


Link: CVE-2023-4949

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