Name | CVE-2025-54485 |
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); |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 1112133 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
biosig (PTS) | bullseye | 2.1.2-4 | vulnerable |
bookworm | 2.5.0-1 | vulnerable | |
forky, sid, trixie | 3.9.0-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
biosig | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 1112133 |
[trixie] - biosig <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - biosig <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - biosig <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://sourceforge.net/p/biosig/mailman/message/59224259/
https://sourceforge.net/p/biosig/code/ci/ba2f1c381b10f5ab50c94be3291b2560af0f7a96/