Vulnerability CVE-2016-1715


Published: 2016-01-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.5/10
8.5/10
2.7/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Complete
Affected software
Microsoft -> Windows 
Mcafee -> Application control 

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

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