CVE-2021-21417

Summary

CVECVE-2021-21417
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-29 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-14 17:06:00 UTC
Descriptionfluidsynth 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Fluidsynth Fluidsynth All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2697-1] fluidsynth security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Invalid generators were not removed from zone list by derselbst · Pull Request #810 · FluidSynth/fluidsynth · GitHub MISC github.com
fluidsynth crashes when loading malformed sf2 file · Issue #808 · FluidSynth/fluidsynth · GitHub MISC github.com
Use after free in fluidsynth · Advisory · FluidSynth/fluidsynth · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179931 Debian Security Update for fluidsynth (CVE-2021-21417)
  • 501561 Alpine Linux Security Update for fluidsynth

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