The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50
- http://www.osvdb.org/93000
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/93001
Affected Vendor
gpsd project
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CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
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