CVE-2013-2038

gpsd < 3.9 - Denial of Service via Malformed NMEA0183 $GPGGA Sentence

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/93000
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/93001

Scores

EPSS 0.0415
EPSS Percentile 89.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (10)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
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
gpsd_project/gpsd < 3.8
Published Feb 06, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026