CVE-2016-8009

Summary

CVECVE-2016-8009
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-14 22:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-03-27 15:26:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege escalation vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Application Control (MAC) 7.0 and 6.x versions allows attackers to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code execution via an unauthorized use of IOCTL call.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.0.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.1 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.2 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.3 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.2.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 7.0.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.0.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.1 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.2 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.1.3 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 6.2.0 All All All
Application Mcafee Application Control 7.0.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
McAfee Corporate KB - McAfee Security Bulletin: Application Control update fixes a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2016-8009) SB10175 CONFIRM kc.mcafee.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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