CVE-2021-42523: Colord Project Colord

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Colord Project Colord: version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only

Published 2022-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.