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 8744 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 3:
				else if (tag==3) {
					// character code
					char v[17];		// [1]
					if (len>16) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag2 incorrect length %i>16\n",len);
					curPos += ifread(&v,1,len,hdr);
					v[len]  = 0;
In this case, the overflowed buffer is the newly-declared `v` \[1\] instead of `buf`. Since `v` is only 17 bytes large, much smaller values of `len` (even those encoded using a single octet) can trigger an overflow in this code path.
                
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                    Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:45:00 +0000
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| First Time appeared | Libbiosig Project Libbiosig Project libbiosig | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:libbiosig_project:libbiosig:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products | Libbiosig Project Libbiosig Project libbiosig | 
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| First Time appeared | The Biosig Project The Biosig Project libbiosig | |
| Vendors & Products | The Biosig Project The Biosig Project libbiosig | 
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| Metrics | ssvc 
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| 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 8744 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 3: else if (tag==3) { // character code char v[17]; // [1] if (len>16) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag2 incorrect length %i>16\n",len); curPos += ifread(&v,1,len,hdr); v[len] = 0; In this case, the overflowed buffer is the newly-declared `v` \[1\] instead of `buf`. Since `v` is only 17 bytes large, much smaller values of `len` (even those encoded using a single octet) can trigger an overflow in this code path. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-121 | |
| References |  | |
| Metrics | cvssV3_1 
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published: 2025-08-25T13:53:45.359Z
Updated: 2025-08-25T19:10:14.694Z
Reserved: 2025-07-23T14:45:55.835Z
Link: CVE-2025-54481
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    Updated: 2025-08-25T19:10:10.355Z
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-08-25T14:15:33.700
Modified: 2025-09-02T16:32:54.493
Link: CVE-2025-54481
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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