CVE-2025-68617Use After Free in Fluidsynth

CWE-416Use After Free4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 23

Description

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 n

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

debiandebian/fluidsynth< fluidsynth 2.5.2+dfsg-1 (forky)
NVDfluidsynth/fluidsynth2.5.02.5.2
Debianfluidsynth/fluidsynth< 2.5.2+dfsg-1
CVEListV5fluidsynth/fluidsynth>= 2.5.0, < 2.5.2

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
OSV
CVE-2025-68617: FluidSynth is a software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications2025-12-23

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2025-68617: fluidsynth - FluidSynth is a software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. Fr...2025

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-68617 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2025-68617 — Use After Free in Fluidsynth | cvebase