What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 18, 2022 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated