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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-26264 EUVD-2026-6027

BACnet Stack WriteProperty decoding length underflow leads to OOB read and crash

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

Description

BACnet Stack is a BACnet open source protocol stack C library for embedded systems. Prior to 1.5.0rc4 and 1.4.3rc2, a malformed WriteProperty request can trigger a length underflow in the BACnet stack, leading to an out‑of‑bounds read and a crash (DoS). The issue is in wp.c within wp_decode_service_request. When decoding the optional priority context tag, the code passes apdu_len - apdu_size to bacnet_unsigned_context_decode without validating that apdu_size <= apdu_len. If a truncated APDU reaches this path, apdu_len - apdu_size underflows, resulting in a large size being used for decoding and an out‑of‑bounds read. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.0rc4 and 1.4.3rc2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
bacnet-stack bacnet-stack >= 1.5.0rc1, < 1.5.0rc4, < 1.4.3rc2 —

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