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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-21870 EUVD-2026-5920

The BACnet Protocol Stack library has an Off-by-one Stack-based Buffer Overflow in tokenizer_string

Published Feb 13, 2026 · Updated Feb 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

BACnet Protocol Stack library provides a BACnet application layer, network layer and media access (MAC) layer communications services. In 1.4.2, 1.5.0.rc2, and earlier, an off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the ubasic interpreter causes a crash (SIGABRT) when processing string literals longer than the buffer limit. The tokenizer_string function in src/bacnet/basic/program/ubasic/tokenizer.c incorrectly handles null termination for maximum-length strings. It writes a null byte to dest[40] when the buffer size is only 40 (indices 0-39), triggering a stack overflow.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bacnet-stack bacnet-stack <= 1.4.2, >= 1.5.0.rc1, <= 1.5.0.rc2 —

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