CVE-2025-54481CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p46.7%

CVE-2025-54481CVE-2025-54481

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.

Scoring

CVSS 3.19.8 (CRITICAL)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.66% probability of exploitation · percentile 46.7% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z
Published2025-08-25
Last modified2025-11-03

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-121

References

  1. https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234
  2. https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2234

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessStack-based Buffer Overflowcwe-1210%live

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