CVE-2008-3584 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NetBSD versions 3.0, 3.1, and 4.0. The flaw allows remote attackers to crash a system with an active PPPoE instance by sending a malformed PPPoE packet that exploits improper length checks. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 9.3, indicating a high impact with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, and can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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