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SUSE: colord Moderate Security Update 2025:4483-1 CVE-2021-42523

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE releases a security advisory for colord addressing a moderate threat with a specific security update available.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for colord fixes the following issues: * Rework fix for CVE-2021-42523 to avoid invalid pointer error during certain installations (bsc#1250750). ## 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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-4483=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-4483=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libcolord2-1.3.3-13.9.2 * libcolorhug2-1.3.3-13.9.2 * colord-debuginfo-1.3.3-13.9.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow SuSE colord

References

* bsc#1202802

* bsc#1250750

Cross-

* CVE-2021-42523

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2021-42523 ( SUSE ): 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

* CVE-2021-42523 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be

installed.

##

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

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202802

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

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:4483-1
Release Date: 2025-12-18T12:29:31Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow SuSE colord

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