Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4949 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 6.7 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
gnu
xen
CWE-787

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnu
2
OS
Xen
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)