Security Vulnerabilities
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 9090 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 64:
else if (tag==64) //0x40
{
// preamble
char tmp[256]; // [1]
curPos += ifread(tmp,1,len,hdr);
In this case, the overflowed buffer is the newly-declared `tmp` \[1\] instead of `buf`. While `tmp` is larger than `buf`, having a size of 256 bytes, a stack overflow can still occur in cases where `len` is encoded using multiple octets and is greater than 256.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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 9191 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 65:
else if (tag==65) //0x41: patient event
{
// event table
curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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 8759 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 5:
else if (tag==5) //0x05: number of channels
{
uint16_t oldNS=hdr->NS;
if (len>4) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag5 incorrect length %i>4\n",len);
curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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 8779 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 6:
else if (tag==6) // 0x06 "number of sequences"
{
// NRec
if (len>4) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag6 incorrect length %i>4\n",len);
curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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);
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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);
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Nex parsing functionality of The Biosig Project libbiosig 3.9.0 and Master Branch (35a819fa). A specially crafted .nex file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25
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 8719 of biosig.c on the current master branch (35a819fa), when the Tag is 0:
if (tag==0) {
if (len!=1) fprintf(stderr,"Warning MFER tag0 incorrect length %i!=1\n",len);
curPos += ifread(buf,1,len,hdr);
}
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-08-25