CVE-2021-3657
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3657
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-3657.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-3657
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2022-02-18T18:15:09.603Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-22T08:25:37.425713Z
- Severity
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- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028932
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-15
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/03/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028932
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00001.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/03/1
Affected packages
Git / gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed