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SUSE: colord Moderate Buffer Overflow Fix Vuln 2025:3949-1 CVE-2021-42523

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE announces a moderate security advisory for colord addressing CVE-2021-42523 with patching instructions.
* bsc#1250750 Cross-References: * CVE-2021-42523

Summary

## 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). ## 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 15.6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3949=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3949=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3949=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-3949=1 * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP6-2025-3949=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service buffer overflow SuSE colord

References

* 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:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP6

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3949-1
Release Date: 2025-11-05T10:05:06Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service buffer overflow SuSE colord

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