Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 13, 2026· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2026-21870
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.
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5cpe:2.3:a:bacnetstack:bacnet_stack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:a:bacnetstack:bacnet_stack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.4.2
- cpe:2.3:a:bacnetstack:bacnet_stack:1.5.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:bacnetstack:bacnet_stack:1.5.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <=1.5.0.rc2, <=1.4.2
- (no CPE)range: <= 1.4.2
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