NIXPKGS-2026-0257
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CVE-2026-21870
5.5 MEDIUM
- CVSS version: 3.1
- Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
- Attack complexity (AC): LOW
- Privileges required (PR): NONE
- User interaction (UI): REQUIRED
- Scope (S): UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
- Integrity impact (I): NONE
- Availability impact (A): HIGH
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The BACnet Protocol Stack library has an Off-by-one Stack-based Buffer Overflow in tokenizer_string
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.
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Affected products
bacnet-stack
- ==>= 1.5.0.rc1, <= 1.5.0.rc2
- ==<= 1.4.2
Package maintainers
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@WhittlesJr Alex Whitt <alex.joseph.whitt@gmail.com>