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.
CVE-2013-2038 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 2 products from gpsd_project, from canonical organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2014-02-06T17:00:04.400
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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2.9
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | ≤ 3.8 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.0 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.1 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.2 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.3 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.4 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.5 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.6 | Yes |
| Application | gpsd_project | gpsd | 3.7 | Yes |
| Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | Yes |
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