CVE-2026-61720

FluidSynth: SF2 DMOD Chunk Unsigned Underflow

State
Published
Severity
6.2 Medium
Published
Sep 18, 2026
Updated
Sep 21, 2026
Reserved
Jul 10, 2026

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Description

FluidSynth is a software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. From 2.5.0 until 2.5.6, the SF2 parser computes the DMOD modulator count as chunk.size / SF_MOD_SIZE - 1 without rejecting chunks smaller than one record. A crafted SF2 file containing a zero-sized DMOD chunk makes the unsigned subtraction wrap to UINT_MAX, and the parser then attempts billions of SFMod allocations. This exhausts process memory and causes denial of service. No workaround is available. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.6.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.2 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
fluidsynthFluidSynth
  • >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.6Affected

References

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