Bug 2133668 (CVE-2021-42523) - CVE-2021-42523 colord: potential memory leak, forgetting to free error message of libsqlite3 API 'sqlite3_exec' -1
Summary: CVE-2021-42523 colord: potential memory leak, forgetting to free error messag...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2021-42523
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2133669 2133670 2133671 2133672 2133673 2133674
Blocks: 2132787
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Reported: 2022-10-11 06:47 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2022-10-13 08:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-10-12 14:33:09 UTC
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Description Sandipan Roy 2022-10-11 06:47:14 UTC 
According to libsqlite3 API document, "To avoid memory leaks, the application should invoke sqlite3_free() on error message strings returned through the 5th parameter of sqlite3_exec() after the error message string is no longer needed."

https://github.com/hughsie/colord/issues/110

openSUSE has issued an advisory on October 4:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/2GDIFQ2MG4MYMILUVYH7MTM5YKO2AMDS/
Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-10-11 06:50:19 UTC 
Created colord tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2133669]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2133672]


Created golang-entgo-ent tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2133670]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2133673]


Created mingw-colord tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2133671]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2133674]
Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2022-10-12 14:33:09 UTC 
This is not a bug. Leaking a few bytes of memory for a failure case THAT CANNOT BE TRIGGED is not a security vulnerability in any way. CVE-2021-42523 should never have been issued and I believe it was only opened for someone to put on his resume. CWE-200 is an completely incorrect classification for this bug.
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