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CVE-2013-2038 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 CVEExploitPatch
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20 CVE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1 CVE
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1 CVE

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-20Improper Input Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gpsd project gpsd
<= 3.8
3.0
3.1
3.2
3.3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
canonical ubuntu linux
12.04 -

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2013-2038
NVD Published Date:
Feb 6, 2014
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2013-2038 Details - Not Deferred