UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2038

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2038

    Published: 2 May 2013Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-2038
    Aliases:
    USN-1820-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2038, http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1820-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2038

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gpsd

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.9-3

    Affected versions

    3.9-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High