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USN-8885-1: FluidSynth vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FluidSynth did not properly validate the channel argument of the pitch_bend_range command. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FluidSynth to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-58264) It was discovered that FluidSynth incorrectly handled configurations with more than 16 MIDI channels in its MIDI player, leading to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FluidSynth to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-61714)

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