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CVE-2025-54492

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-121

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 9141 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 67: else if (tag==67) //0x43: Sample skew { int skew=0; // [1] curPos += ifread(&skew, 1, len,hdr); In this case, the address of the newly-defined integer `skew` \[1\] is overflowed instead of `buf`. This means a stack overflow can occur using much smaller values of `len` in this code path.

Affected products

• The Biosig Project libbiosig: before 3.9.1 — fixed in 3.9.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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