Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 6, 2014· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2013-2038
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.
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Affected products
11<3.9+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: <3.9
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=3.8
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*
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