Issued at: 2026-01-20
Updated at: 2026-01-21
Synopsis
Important: gpsd-minimal security update
Description
gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation support for this package is limited. See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/gpsd-support for more details.
Security Fix(es):
* gpsd: gpsd: Denial of Service due to malformed NAVCOM packet parsing (CVE-2025-67269)
* gpsd: gpsd: Arbitrary code execution via heap-based out-of-bounds write in NMEA2000 packet handling (CVE-2025-67268)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.