Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 20, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-10238
CVE-2018-10238
Description
bvlc.c in skarg BACnet Protocol Stack bacserv 0.9.1 and 0.8.5 is affected by a Buffer Overflow because of a lack of packet-size validation. The affected component is bacserv BACnet/IP BVLC forwarded NPDU. The function bvlc_bdt_forward_npdu() calls bvlc_encode_forwarded_npdu() which copies the content from the request into a local in the bvlc_bdt_forward_npdu() stack frame and clobbers the canary. The attack vector is: A BACnet/IP device with BBMD enabled based on this library connected to IP network. The fixed version is: 0.8.6.
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Affected products
1- Range: 0.8.5, 0.9.1
Patches
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References
3- sourceforge.net/p/bacnet/code/3168/nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- sourceforge.net/p/bacnet/bugs/55/nvd
- sourceforge.net/p/bacnet/code/3169/nvd
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