Critical severity · published Aug 25, 2025
CVE-2025-54489
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MFER parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.0 and Master Branch (35a819fa)
9.8
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 8970 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 63:
else if (tag==63) {
uint8_t tag2=255, len2=255;
count = 0;
while ((count<len) && !(FlagInfiniteLength && len2==0 && tag2==0)){
curPos += ifread(&tag2,1,1,hdr);
curPos += ifread(&len2,1,1,hdr);
if (VERBOSE_LEVEL==9)
fprintf(stdout,"MFER: tag=%3i chan=%2i len=%-4i tag2=%3i len2=%3i curPos=%i %li count=%4i\n",tag,chan,len,tag2,len2,curPos,iftell(hdr),(int)count);
if (FlagInfiniteLength && len2==0 && tag2==0) break;
count += (2+len2);
curPos += ifread(&buf,1,len2,hdr);
Here, the number of bytes read is not the Data Length decoded from the current frame in the file (`len`) but rather is a new length contained in a single octet read from the same input file (`len2`). Despite this, a stack-based buffer overflow condition can still occur, as the destination buffer is still `buf`, which has a size of only 128 bytes, while `len2` can be as large as 255.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Libbiosig · Libbiosig Project
before 3.9.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54489
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54489
Exploit
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234
www.talosintelligence.com
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234
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