Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-2038 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
gpsd-project
canonical
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2014-02-06
Updated: 2014-02-07

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gpsd_Project
81
OS
Canonical
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2015-531.NASL
    descriptiongpsm was updated to fix one security issue. The following vulnerability was fixed : - CVE-2013-2038: Denial of service by a remote attacker via specially crafted packages (boo#818136)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2015-08-05
    plugin id85235
    published2015-08-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85235
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : gpsm (openSUSE-2015-531)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2015-531.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(85235);
  script_version("2.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2038");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : gpsm (openSUSE-2015-531)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2015-531 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"gpsm was updated to fix one security issue.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

  - CVE-2013-2038: Denial of service by a remote attacker
    via specially crafted packages (boo#818136)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818136"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected gpsm packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpsd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpsd-clients");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpsd-clients-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpsd-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpsd-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpsd-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpsd-devel-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libQgpsmm20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libQgpsmm20-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgps20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgps20-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-gpsd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-gpsd-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/07/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/08/05");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE13\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "13.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"gpsd-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"gpsd-clients-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"gpsd-clients-debuginfo-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"gpsd-debuginfo-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"gpsd-debugsource-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"gpsd-devel-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"gpsd-devel-debuginfo-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"libQgpsmm20-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"libQgpsmm20-debuginfo-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"libgps20-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"libgps20-debuginfo-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"python-gpsd-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"python-gpsd-debuginfo-3.5-7.8.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "gpsd / gpsd-clients / gpsd-clients-debuginfo / gpsd-debuginfo / etc");
}
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1820-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that gpsd incorrectly handled certain malformed GPS data. An attacker could use this issue to cause gpsd to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id66357
    published2013-05-09
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/66357
    titleUbuntu 12.04 LTS : gpsd vulnerability (USN-1820-1)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1820-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(66357);
  script_version("1.8");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2038");
  script_bugtraq_id(59611);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1820-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : gpsd vulnerability (USN-1820-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was discovered that gpsd incorrectly handled certain malformed GPS
data. An attacker could use this issue to cause gpsd to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1820-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected gpsd package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpsd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/02/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/05/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/05/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(12\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 12.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"gpsd", pkgver:"3.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "gpsd");
}

References