RHSA-2026:0771 — Security Advisory

An update for gpsd-minimal is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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 Red Hat 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.