CVE-2013-2038
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 4.2%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.2% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-2020)
- Published
- February 6, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-2020 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
- gpsd project / gpsd
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50(Exploit, Patch)
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1
- http://www.osvdb.org/93000
- http://www.osvdb.org/93001
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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