Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3657  

A security issue was found in mbsync in isync versions before 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.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A security issue was found in mbsync in isync versions before 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.

AVG-2579 isync 1.4.3-1 1.4.4-1 Medium Fixed

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/03/1
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/03/1/1
https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/isync/ci/463272eab866a36162fe51813327ca7af2f37ca0/
https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/isync/ci/ba13362a52d8749731ba645e5e50e47862a5b91d/
https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/isync/ci/bc15e571b650270b87e9758916f93eab04992cef/
https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/isync/ci/bc15e571b650270b87e9758916f93eab04992cef/
https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/isync/ci/127003ee37e3eb6d914782be43097338baa32d2b/