CVE-2013-2038
mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.042 · 91 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3
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affected products (11)
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references (22)
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- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50cnnvd
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.htmlcnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1cnnvd
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1cnnvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/93000cnnvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/93001cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59611cnnvd
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