Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025
CVE-2025-54488
CVE-2025-54488
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);
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23.9.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 3.9.0
- (no CPE)range: 3.9.0
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