Use After Free Affecting fluidsynth/fluidsynth package, versions [,2.1.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FLUIDSYNTHFLUIDSYNTH-2365703
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-21417  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade fluidsynth/fluidsynth to version 2.1.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free fluidsynth is a software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. A use after free violation was discovered in fluidsynth, that can be triggered when loading an invalid SoundFont file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1