CVE-2013-2038 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the NMEA0183 driver of gpsd versions prior to 3.9, affecting products like Canonical Ubuntu Linux and gpsd_project gpsd. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a malformed GPS packet, specifically a $GPGGA sentence missing required fields and a terminator, leading to daemon termination and potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability has a low severity, requiring medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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