CVE-2013-2038

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-2038
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-02-06 17:00:04 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS: 0.020100000 probability, percentile 0.837870000 (date 2026-05-04)

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 - lts All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.0 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.1 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.2 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.3 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.4 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.5 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.6 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd 3.7 All All All
Application Gpsd Project Gpsd All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[gpsd-dev] 3.9 is released af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.nongnu.org
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.savannah.gnu.org Exploit, Patch
oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- gpsd 3.9 fixing a denial of service flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
www.osvdb.org/93001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
www.osvdb.org/93000 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- gpsd 3.9 fixing a denial of service flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
USN-1820-1: gpsd vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com
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