CVE-2025-43857

A flaw was found in Net::IMAP, a Ruby library for IMAP client functionality. This vulnerability allows a malicious server to send a large "literal" byte count, causing the client to allocate excessive memory, potentially leading to denial of service (memory exhaustion). This vulnerability could allow an attacker to overload the system's memory, causing performance degradation or crashes when connecting to untrusted or compromised IMAP servers.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.