CVE-2013-2038
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Improper input validation
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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 & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50Patch
- 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