CVE-2025-54487

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 8842 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 12:

                else if (tag==12)    //0x0C
                {
                    // sampling resolution
                    if (len>6) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag12 incorrect length %i>6\n",len);
                    val32   = 0;
                    int8_t  v8;
                    curPos += ifread(&UnitCode,1,1,hdr);
                    curPos += ifread(&v8,1,1,hdr);
                    curPos += ifread(buf,1,len-2,hdr);

In addition to values of `len` greater than 130 triggering a buffer overflow, a value of `len` smaller than 2 will also trigger a buffer overflow due to an integer underflow when computing `len-2` in this code path.