CVE-2015-3310

Microsoft advisory for CVE-2015-3310

Published
August 7, 2025
Last Modified
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📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2015-3310

EchelonGraph score
4.3 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

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.

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2015-3310, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

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