CVE-2016-1715

MEDIUM

McAfee Application Control <6.2.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The swin.sys kernel driver in McAfee Application Control (MAC) 6.1.0 before build 706, 6.1.1 before build 404, 6.1.2 before build 449, 6.1.3 before build 441, and 6.2.0 before build 505 on 32-bit Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or gain privileges via a 768 syscall, which triggers a zero to be written to an arbitrary kernel memory location.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10145
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-007

Scores

CVSS v3 6.6
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 59.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-189
Status published
Products (6)
mcafee/application_control 6.1.0
mcafee/application_control 6.1.1
mcafee/application_control 6.1.2
mcafee/application_control 6.1.3
mcafee/application_control 6.2.0
microsoft/windows
Published Jan 12, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026