CVE-2015-3310

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the rc_mksid function in plugins/radius/util.c in Paul's PPP Package (ppp) 2.4.6 and earlier, when the PID for pppd is greater than 65535, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a start accounting message to the RADIUS server.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0
Point-To-Point Protocol Project Point-To-Point Protocol: through 2.4.6

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0173.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00147.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3228
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:222
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74163
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2595-1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782450
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-50
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0173.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00147.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3228
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:222

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