CVE-2016-1715

medium

Published 2016-01-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.6

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

CVSS v2

5.5

VIR risk

6.6

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

65%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10145

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mcafee	application_control	`6.1.0`
mcafee	application_control	`6.1.1`
mcafee	application_control	`6.1.2`
mcafee	application_control	`6.1.3`
mcafee	application_control	`6.2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.