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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202009-17">
+ <title>gpsd: Arbitrary code execution</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in gpsd could allow remote code execution.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">gpsd</product>
+ <announced>2020-09-29</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-09-29</revised>
+ <bug>743766</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sci-geosciences/gpsd" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.18</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.18</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>gpsd is a GPS daemon and library for USB/serial GPS devices and
+ GPS/mapping clients.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in gpsd on port 2947/TCP or
+ crafted JSON inputs.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All gpsd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sci-geosciences/gpsd-3.18"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17937">CVE-2018-17937</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-09-25T20:46:53Z">sam_c</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-09-29T18:06:31Z">sam_c</metadata>
+</glsa>