CVE-2025-54490
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS 3.1
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 9090 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 64:
else if (tag==64) //0x40
{
// preamble
char tmp[256]; // [1]
curPos += ifread(tmp,1,len,hdr);
In this case, the overflowed buffer is the newly-declared `tmp` \[1\] instead of `buf`. While `tmp` is larger than `buf`, having a size of 256 bytes, a stack overflow can still occur in cases where `len` is encoded using multiple octets and is greater than 256.
Metadata
Severity & Metrics
9.8
CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Affected products (1)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Biosig Project | libbiosig | — | 3.9.0, Master Branch (35a819fa) |
Weakness (CWE)
| CWE | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-121 | cna | CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow |
CVSS scores (1)
| Score | Severity | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | CRITICAL | 3.1 | cna | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (1)
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234