CVE-2015-3310

medium

Published 2015-04-24 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	14.10	affected
debian	7.0	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.4.6-3.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.4.6-3.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.4.6-3.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.4.6-3.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.4.6-3.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
point-to-point_protocol_project	point-to-point_protocol	`{"endIncluding":"2.4.6"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.