CVE-2021-3657 (GCVE-0-2021-3657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-18 17:50 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01
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Summary
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.
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n/a isync Affected: isync 1.4.4
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