CVE-2016-1715

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

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.

Affected products

Intel McAfee Application Control (MAC): 6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.2.0
Microsoft Corporation Windows: all versions

References

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-007
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10145
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-007
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10145

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