CVE-2016-1715

Published Jan 12, 2016

Last updated 9 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.6
Impact score
5.3
Exploitability score
0.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.5
Impact score
8.5
Exploitability score
2.7
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-189

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations