# CVE-2026-61720: FluidSynth: SF2 DMOD Chunk Unsigned Underflow

- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.5.6
- Published: 2026-09-18 · Updated: 2026-09-21

## Affected

- fluidsynth: from 2.5.0, fixed in 2.5.6

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fluidsynth, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/security/advisories/GHSA-rmc4-c8hw-455w
- https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/commit/096e1ff0d09ddcac83d94923440706f76f94bc44
- https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/releases/tag/v2.5.6

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