
CVE catalog
CVE-2025-68617
fluidsynth: CVE-2025-68617
- Severity
- High · CVSS 7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.21% · Oct 25, 2026
FluidSynth is a software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. From versions 2.5.0 to before 2.5.2, a race condition during unloading of a DLS file can trigger a heap-based use-after-free. A concurrently running thread may be pending to unload a DLS file, leading to use of freed memory, if the synthesizer is being concurrently destroyed, or samples of the (unloaded) DLS file are concurrently used to synthesize audio. This issue has been patched in version 2.5.2. The problem will not occur, when explicitly unloading a DLS file (before synth destruction), provided that at the time of unloading, no samples of the respective file are used by active voices. The problem will not occur in versions of FluidSynth that have been compiled without native DLS support.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | fluidsynth | sid | 2.6.1+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| Debian | fluidsynth | forky | 2.6.1+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| Debian | fluidsynth | trixie | 2.4.4+dfsg-1+deb13u3 | not affected |
| Debian | fluidsynth | bookworm | 2.3.1-2 | not affected |
| Cpe | fluidsynth | Not reported | 2.5.2 | fixed |
| Opensuse | fluidsynth | tumbleweed | 2.5.2-1.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | fluidsynth | source | sid | 2.5.2+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1123964] |
| Debian | fluidsynth | source | forky | 2.5.2+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1123964] |
| Debian | fluidsynth | source | trixie | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | [1123964] |
| Debian | fluidsynth | source | bookworm | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | [1123964] |
| Cpe | fluidsynth | cpe | Not reported | 2.5.2 | Not reported | NVD-CVE-2025-68617 | Not reported |
| Opensuse | fluidsynth | rpm | tumbleweed | 2.5.2-1.1 | Not reported | OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10004-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[openSUSE Tumbleweed]
- [fluidsynth-devel]Unknown
Source package: [fluidsynth]
Details (1)
2.5.7-1.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedUnknown · Fixed:
2.5.2-1.1Version impact unknown
dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed
- [libfluidsynth3]Unknown
Source package: [fluidsynth]
Details (1)
2.5.7-1.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedUnknown · Fixed:
2.5.2-1.1Version impact unknown
dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed
- [libfluidsynth3-32bit]Unknown
Source package: [fluidsynth]
Details (1)
2.5.7-1.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedUnknown · Fixed:
2.5.2-1.1Version impact unknown
dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed
- [fluidsynth]Fixed
Source package: [fluidsynth]
Details (1)
2.5.7-1.1· x86_64 · tumbleweedFixed · Fixed:
2.5.2-1.1dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [fluidsynth]Not affected
Details (2)
2.3.1-2· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm
2.3.1-2· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm
- [libfluidsynth3]Not affected
Source package: [fluidsynth]
Details (2)
2.3.1-2· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm
2.3.1-2· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm
- [libfluidsynth-dev]Not affected
Source package: [fluidsynth]
Details (2)
2.3.1-2· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm
2.3.1-2· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/opensuse-su-2026_10004-1.json]
- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68617]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68617]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10004-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-68617]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-68617.json]
[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [National Vulnerability Database (NVD)] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX]