CVE-2013-2038
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.6-5 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 3.6-5 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3.6-5 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3.6-5 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3.6-5 |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2038.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1
- http://www.osvdb.org/93000
- http://www.osvdb.org/93001
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2038
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.