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CVE-2021-3657

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2022-02-18 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Debian Debian LinuxRedhat Enterprise LinuxIsync Project IsyncFedoraproject Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-119, CWE-119

References