CVE-2011-0524

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the NMEA parser (nmea-gen.c) in gypsy 0.8 allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors related to the sprintf function.

Affected products

Iain Gypsy: 0.8

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106919.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106927.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00034.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49991
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/10
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33431
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gypsy/+bug/690323
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106919.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106927.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107020.html

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