CVE-2013-2038

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductGpsd
PublishedFeb 6, 2014
First seenFeb 6, 2014

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gpsd_project gpsdv ≤ 3.8, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7—
canonical ubuntu_linux12.04—

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