CVE-2016-1715

medium Trellix
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score
0.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 40% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Published: January 12, 2016 (3775 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Trellix
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-189

Affected Products

microsoft windowsmcafee application control

References

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