CVE-2013-2038: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only
• Gpsd Project Gpsd: up to and including 3.8; version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only; …

Published 2014-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.