VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-54486

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.68%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-08-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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 8824 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 11: else if (tag==11) //0x0B { // Fs if (len>6) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag11 incorrect length %i>6\n",len); double fval; curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);

Weakness classification

  • CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Primary references