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CVE-2016-1715

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,…

Medium6.6EPSS 2.3%
Published
Updated
Reserved
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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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-1715, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0Medium6.6CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.6.

Weakness

Affected products

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