CVE-2008-3584: Netbsd

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NetBSD 3.0, 3.1, and 4.0, when a pppoe instance exists, does not properly check the length of a PPPoE packet tag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted PPPoE packet.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only; version 4.0 only

Published 2008-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.