HIGH 7.5 Microsoft

CVE-2021-42523

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 'err_msg' of 'sqlite3_exec' is not releasing after use while libxml2 emphasizes that the caller needs to release it.

Microsoft Security Update 2022-Aug: 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 'err_msg' of 'sqlite3_exec' is not releasing after use while libxml2 emphasizes that the caller needs to release it.

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Published: 2022-08-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-03
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2022-08-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 colord 1.4.4-9 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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