CVE-2025-54490
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-121
Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Publication date:
25/08/2025
Last modified:
03/11/2025
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:<br />
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else if (tag==64) //0x40<br />
{<br />
// preamble<br />
char tmp[256]; // [1]<br />
curPos += ifread(tmp,1,len,hdr);<br />
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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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:libbiosig_project:libbiosig:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 3.9.1 (excluding) |
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