CVE 9.8 CRITICAL

CVE-2025-54488_CVE-2025-54488

9.8 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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 8850 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 13:

else if (tag==13) {
if (len>8) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag13 incorrect length %i>8\n",len);
curPos += ifread(&buf,1,len,hdr);

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-54488
Source talos
Published Aug 25, 2025 at 13:53

Affected Product

Vendor The Biosig Project
Product libbiosig
Version 3.9.0
Affected Versions The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.0
The Biosig Project libbiosig Master Branch (35a819fa)

CWE Classification

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