CVE-2021-3657
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-18 17:50
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
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.
References
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028932Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-15Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/03/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028932Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-15Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/03/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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