CVE catalog

CVE-2025-68617

fluidsynth: CVE-2025-68617

[CVE catalog]

Severity
High · CVSS 7CVSS: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.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianfluidsynthsid2.6.1+dfsg-2fixed
Debianfluidsynthforky2.6.1+dfsg-2fixed
Debianfluidsynthtrixie2.4.4+dfsg-1+deb13u3not affected
Debianfluidsynthbookworm2.3.1-2not affected
CpefluidsynthNot reported2.5.2fixed
Opensusefluidsynthtumbleweed2.5.2-1.1fixed

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianfluidsynthsourcesid2.5.2+dfsg-1not yet assignedNot reported[1123964]
Debianfluidsynthsourceforky2.5.2+dfsg-1not yet assignedNot reported[1123964]
DebianfluidsynthsourcetrixieNot affectedunimportantNot reported[1123964]
DebianfluidsynthsourcebookwormNot affectedunimportantNot reported[1123964]
CpefluidsynthcpeNot reported2.5.2Not reportedNVD-CVE-2025-68617Not reported
Opensusefluidsynthrpmtumbleweed2.5.2-1.1Not reportedOPENSUSE-SU-2026:10004-1Not reported

[Debian bug #1123964]

OpenFactory catalog packages

[openSUSE Tumbleweed]

  • Source package: [fluidsynth]

    Details (1)
    • 2.5.7-1.1 · x86_64 · tumbleweed

      Unknown · Fixed: 2.5.2-1.1

      Version impact unknown

      dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed

  • Source package: [fluidsynth]

    Details (1)
    • 2.5.7-1.1 · x86_64 · tumbleweed

      Unknown · Fixed: 2.5.2-1.1

      Version impact unknown

      dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed

  • Source package: [fluidsynth]

    Details (1)
    • 2.5.7-1.1 · x86_64 · tumbleweed

      Unknown · Fixed: 2.5.2-1.1

      Version impact unknown

      dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed

  • [fluidsynth]Fixed

    Source package: [fluidsynth]

    Details (1)
    • 2.5.7-1.1 · x86_64 · tumbleweed

      Fixed · Fixed: 2.5.2-1.1

      dsa · fluidsynth · opensuse · tumbleweed

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [fluidsynth]Not affected
    Details (2)
    • 2.3.1-2 · amd64 · bookworm

      Not affected

      dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm

    • 2.3.1-2 · arm64 · bookworm

      Not affected

      dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm

  • [libfluidsynth3]Not affected

    Source package: [fluidsynth]

    Details (2)
    • 2.3.1-2 · amd64 · bookworm

      Not affected

      dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm

    • 2.3.1-2 · arm64 · bookworm

      Not affected

      dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm

  • [libfluidsynth-dev]Not affected

    Source package: [fluidsynth]

    Details (2)
    • 2.3.1-2 · amd64 · bookworm

      Not affected

      dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm

    • 2.3.1-2 · arm64 · bookworm

      Not affected

      dsa · fluidsynth · debian · bookworm

Observed:

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