Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 13, 2026· Updated Feb 13, 2026
The BACnet Protocol Stack library has an Off-by-one Stack-based Buffer Overflow in tokenizer_string
CVE-2026-21870
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
1- Range: <= 1.4.2
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
3- github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/commit/4e1176394a5ae50d2fd0b5790d9bff806dc08465mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/pull/1196mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack/security/advisories/GHSA-pc83-wp6w-93mxmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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