McAfee Application Control Kernel Driver Memory Corruption Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of McAfee Application Control. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within processing of syscall 768 in the swin.sys kernel driver. A malicious call can write a 0 to an arbitrary address in kernel memory. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM.