DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4949
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949
Upstream
Published
2023-11-10T17:15:07.570Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:06:26.766983Z
Severity
  • 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.97-77
0.97-78
0.97-79
0.97-80
0.97-81
0.97-82
0.97-83
0.97-84

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949.json"

Debian:12 / grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.97-80
0.97-81
0.97-82
0.97-83
0.97-84

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949.json"

Debian:13 / grub

Package

Name
grub
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/grub?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.97-84

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4949.json"