UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42523

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-42523
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42523.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42523
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:47:01Z
Published
2022-08-25T18:15:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:43:22.033572Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

There are two Information Disclosure vulnerabilities in colord, and they lie in colord/src/cd-device-db.c and colord/src/cd-profile-db.c separately. They exist because the 'errmsg' of 'sqlite3exec' is not releasing after use, while libxml2 emphasizes that the caller needs to release it.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / colord

Package

Name
colord
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/colord@1.4.6-1?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.4.6-1

Affected versions

1.*

1.4.5-3build1

Ecosystem specific 

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            "binary_name": "colord-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "colord-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "colord-tests"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "colord-tests-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-colord-1.0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-colorhug-1.0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "libcolord-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "libcolord2"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "libcolord2-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4.6-1",
            "binary_name": "libcolorhug-dev"
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            "binary_name": "libcolorhug2"
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    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}