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CVE-2013-2038

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
06/02/2014
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.8 (including)
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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