CVE-2016-1715

MEDIUM

McAfee Application Control <6.2.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.6
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 59.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-189
Status draft

Affected Products (6)

microsoft/windows
mcafee/application_control
mcafee/application_control
mcafee/application_control
mcafee/application_control
mcafee/application_control

Timeline

Published Jan 12, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026