PT-2016-4012 · Mcafee · Mcafee File Lock

Kyriakos Economou · Published 2016-01-29 · Updated 2016-03-04 · CVE-2015-8772

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

8.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions McAfee File Lock versions 5.x

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash. This is achieved via a large VERIFY INFORMATION.Length value in an IOCTL DISK VERIFY ioctl call to the McPvDrv.sys driver.

Recommendations For McAfee File Lock version 5.x, update the McPvDrv.sys driver to a version that does not allow large VERIFY INFORMATION.Length values in an IOCTL DISK VERIFY ioctl call.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-19

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8772

Affected Products

Mcafee File Lock

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8772 · Security Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/90 · Note
• https://nettitude.co.uk/mcafee-file-lock-driver-kernel-memory-leak · Note