Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-54484

CVE-2025-54484

The Biosig Project libbiosig — A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MFER parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.0 and Master Bra…

Description · from the CVE record

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MFER parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.0 and Master Branch (35a819fa). A specially crafted MFER file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability manifests on line 8779 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 6: else if (tag==6) // 0x06 "number of sequences" { // NRec if (len>4) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag6 incorrect length %i>4\n",len); curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
libbiosig3.9.0–CNA
libbiosigMaster Branch (35a819fa)–CNA

Scores by source

talos (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

reftalosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234reftalosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234