DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54486

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-54486
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54486.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54486
Upstream
Published
2025-08-25T14:15:34Z
Modified
2026-09-01T20:05:54Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 8824 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 11: else if (tag==11) //0x0B { // Fs if (len>6) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag11 incorrect length %i>6\n",len); double fval; curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / biosig

Package

Name
biosig
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/biosig?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.5.0-1
2.5.2-1
2.5.2-2
2.6.0-1
2.6.1-1
3.*
3.9.0-1
3.9.5-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54486.json"

Debian:13 / biosig

Package

Name
biosig
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/biosig?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.9.0-1
3.9.5-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54486.json"

Debian:14 / biosig

Package

Name
biosig
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/biosig?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.9.5-1

Affected versions

3.*
3.9.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54486.json"