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 8785 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 8:
else if (tag==8) {
if (len>2) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag8 incorrect length %i>2\n",len);
curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:libbiosig_project:libbiosig:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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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 8785 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 8: else if (tag==8) { if (len>2) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag8 incorrect length %i>2\n",len); curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr); | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-121 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: talos
Published: 2025-08-25T13:53:45.832Z
Updated: 2025-08-25T19:07:42.762Z
Reserved: 2025-07-23T14:45:55.835Z
Link: CVE-2025-54485
Updated: 2025-08-25T19:07:39.862Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-08-25T14:15:34.473
Modified: 2025-09-02T16:33:13.547
Link: CVE-2025-54485
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