CVE-2025-54490
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Publication date: 2025-08-25

Last updated on: 2025-11-03

Assigner: Talos

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.
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Published
2025-08-25
Last Modified
2025-11-03
Generated
2026-05-07
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2025-08-25
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-05
NVD
CVE-2025-54490
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Vendor Product Version / Range
libbiosig_project libbiosig to 3.9.1 (exc)
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CWE ID Description
CWE-121 A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?

This vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow in the MFER parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig version 3.9.0 and its master branch. It occurs when processing a specially crafted MFER file with a tag value of 64. The code allocates a temporary buffer of 256 bytes, but if the length of the data to read exceeds 256 bytes due to multi-octet encoding, it causes a stack overflow. This overflow can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by providing a malicious MFER file.


How can this vulnerability impact me? :

This vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution on the affected system without requiring any privileges or user interaction. An attacker can exploit it remotely by supplying a malicious MFER file, potentially compromising the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system.


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