CVE-2015-3310: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Point-To-Point Protocol Project Point-To-Point Protocol: up to and including 2.4.6

Published 2015-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.