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CVE-2013-2038

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published2/6/2014

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxgpsd_project:gpsd

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20(secalert@redhat.com)

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1(secalert@redhat.com)

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.osvdb.org/93000(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.osvdb.org/93001(secalert@redhat.com)

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/93000(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/93001(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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