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openSUSE: colord Moderate Crash Risk Fix SUSE-2025:3899-1

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for openSUSE resolves a moderate severity issue in colord, preventing crashes from mismanaged errors.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for colord fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2021-42523: The original fix was wrong and did not properly free the

error, resulting in a crash that has now been addressed (bsc#1250750).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate remote access crash OpenSUSE colord

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3899=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3899=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3899=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3899=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3899=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-3899=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libcolorhug2-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolorhug2-debuginfo-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* typelib-1_0-Colord-1_0-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* colord-color-profiles-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* colord-debuginfo-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* typelib-1_0-Colorhug-1_0-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolord-devel-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* colord-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolord2-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolord2-debuginfo-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* colord-debugsource-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* colord-lang-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* libcolord2-32bit-debuginfo-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolord2-32bit-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libcolord2-64bit-debuginfo-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolord2-64bit-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* colord-debugsource-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolord2-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* colord-debuginfo-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* libcolord2-debuginfo-1.4.5-150400.4.9.1

* SUSE Linux...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1250750

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42523.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250750

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3899-1
Release Date: 2025-10-31T14:56:13Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate remote access crash OpenSUSE colord

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