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
Published Feb 6, 2014
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 4.15%
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.
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 3.8
- 3.0
- 3.1
- 3.2
- 3.3
- 3.4
- 3.5
- 3.6
- 3.7
- 12.04
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 4.15% (0.04150) | 90.55th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4.15% (0.04150) | 89.52th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.01% (0.02010) | 82.10th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 3.61% (0.03609) | 79.42th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.01% (0.02010) | 82.51th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 3.19% (0.03188) | 91.54th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 5, 2024 | 3.19% (0.03188) | 90.22th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 2.94% (0.02938) | 89.27th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 4.97% (0.04967) | 89.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 4.97% (0.04967) | 88.46th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 4.97% (0.04967) | 74.95th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (7)
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- http://www.osvdb.org/93000 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://www.osvdb.org/93001 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 | x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch | |
| http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU | |
| http://www.osvdb.org/93000 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB | |
| http://www.osvdb.org/93001 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
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