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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1738-1 gpsd -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Mar 2019

Affected Packages:

gpsd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 925327.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-17937.

More information:

A security vulnerability was discovered in gpsd, the Global Positioning System daemon. A stack-based buffer overflow may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via traffic on port 2947/TCP or crafted JSON inputs.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 3.11-3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gpsd packages.

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