NMEA0183 Driver Denial of Service and Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2013-2038 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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