Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-3310

Title: Point-To-Point Protocol Project Point-To-Point Protocol Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-3310.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Apr 24, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-3310: 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.

Impacted Vendors

point-to-point_protocol_project 1

Reference Links

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 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-3310 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 24, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.