Vulnerability CVE-2021-3657


Published: 2022-02-18

Description:
A flaw was found in mbsync versions prior to 1.4.4. Due to inadequate handling of extremely large (>=2GiB) IMAP literals, malicious or compromised IMAP servers, and hypothetically even external email senders, could cause several different buffer overflows, which could conceivably be exploited for remote code execution.

 References:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/03/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028932

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