PT-2013-3517 · None+1 · Gpsd+1

Eric S. Raymond · Published 2013-05-02 · Updated 2015-05-28 · CVE-2013-2038

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gpsd versions prior to 3.9

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence. This sentence lacks certain fields and a terminator.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.9, update to version 3.9 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the NMEA0183 driver to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1470

CVE-2013-2038

USN-1820-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gpsd

References · 18

• 🔥 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-2038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1820-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2038 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2038 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2038 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2038 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/93000 · Note