CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-2038
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon termination) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was also reported, but it might not be a vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• gpsd project gpsd (<= 3.8)
• gpsd project gpsd 3.0
• gpsd project gpsd 3.1
• gpsd project gpsd 3.2
• gpsd project gpsd 3.3
• gpsd project gpsd 3.4
• gpsd project gpsd 3.5
• gpsd project gpsd 3.6
• gpsd project gpsd 3.7
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 Exploit, Patch
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html lists.nongnu.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1 openwall.com
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1 ubuntu.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/93000 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/93001 www.osvdb.org
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 Exploit, Patch
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html lists.nongnu.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1 openwall.com
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1 ubuntu.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/93000 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/93001 www.osvdb.org