CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2013-2038
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
4.15%
Original NVD 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.