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High · 7.0 CVE-2025-68617 EUVD-2025-205027

Use after free in fluidsynth

Published Dec 23, 2025 · Updated Dec 24, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FluidSynth fluidsynth >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 fluidsynth 2.5.2+dfsg-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 fluidsynth No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 fluidsynth No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS fluidsynth No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS fluidsynth No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS fluidsynth No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS fluidsynth No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS fluidsynth No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS fluidsynth No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS fluidsynth No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed fluidsynth 2.5.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10004-1

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