# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-54489"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-25T13:53:46.340Z"
updatedAt: "2025-11-03T18:13:30.624Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:39.058Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-54489"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-54489.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54489"
title: null
summary: "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 8970 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 63:\r\n\r\n                else if (tag==63) {\r\n                    uint8_t tag2=255, len2=255;\r\n\r\n                    count = 0;\r\n                    while ((count\u003clen) && !(FlagInfiniteLength && len2==0 && tag2==0)){\r\n                        curPos += ifread(&tag2,1,1,hdr);\r\n                        curPos += ifread(&len2,1,1,hdr);\r\n                        if (VERBOSE_LEVEL==9)\r\n                            fprintf(stdout,\"MFER: tag=%3i chan=%2i len=%-4i tag2=%3i len2=%3i curPos=%i %li count=%4i\\n\",tag,chan,len,tag2,len2,curPos,iftell(hdr),(int)count);\r\n\r\n                        if (FlagInfiniteLength && len2==0 && tag2==0) break;\r\n\r\n                        count  += (2+len2);\r\n                        curPos += ifread(&buf,1,len2,hdr);\r\n\r\nHere, the number of bytes read is not the Data Length decoded from the current frame in the file (`len`) but rather is a new length contained in a single octet read from the same input file (`len2`). Despite this, a stack-based buffer overflow condition can still occur, as the destination buffer is still `buf`, which has a size of only 128 bytes, while `len2` can be as large as 255."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3.9.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"Master Branch (35a819fa)","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"The Biosig Project","product":"libbiosig"}]

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