CVE-2013-2038

NameCVE-2013-2038
DescriptionThe 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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Debian Bugs706665

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gpsd (PTS)bullseye3.22-4fixed
bookworm3.22-4.1fixed
sid, trixie3.25-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gpsdsourcewheezy3.6-4+deb7u1
gpsdsource(unstable)3.6-5706665

Notes

[squeeze] - gpsd <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html

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