CVE-2016-1715 — Out-of-bounds Write in Application Control
Severity
6.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 12
Latest updateMay 17
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 5.3