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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2025-69209 EUVD-2025-206313

ArduinoCore-avr has Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in WString Float/Double Constructors

Published Jan 21, 2026 · Updated Jan 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ArduinoCore-avr contains the source code and configuration files of the Arduino AVR Boards platform. A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8.7 allows an attacker to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow when converting floating-point values to strings with high precision. By passing very large `decimalPlaces` values to the affected String constructors or concat methods, the `dtostrf` function writes beyond fixed-size stack buffers, causing memory corruption and denial of service. Under specific conditions, this could enable arbitrary code execution on AVR-based Arduino boards.

### Patches

- The Fix is included starting from the `1.8.7` release available from the following link [ArduinoCore-avr v1.8.7](https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr)

- The Fixing Commit is available at the following link [1a6a417f89c8901dad646efce74ae9d3ddebfd59](https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/pull/613/commits/1a6a417f89c8901dad646efce74ae9d3ddebfd59)

### References

- [ASEC-26-001 ArduinoCore-avr vXXXX Resolves Buffer Overflow Vulnerability](https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/XXXXX)

### Credits

- Maxime Rossi Bellom and Ramtine Tofighi Shirazi from SecMate (https://secmate.dev/)

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
arduino ArduinoCore-avr < 1.8.7 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 arduino-core-avr 1.8.7+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 arduino-core-avr 1.8.7+dfsg-1~deb13u1 —
Debian 12 arduino-core-avr 1.8.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 arduino-core-avr No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS arduino-core-avr No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 arduino-core-avr No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS arduino-core-avr No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS arduino-core-avr No fix yet —

References