CVE Published: 15/07/2009 |
CVE Updated: 07/08/2024 |
CVE Year: 2009 Source: microsoft |
Vendor: n/a |
Product: n/a Status : PUBLISHED
CVE-2009-1542 Description
The Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 SP1, 2007, and 2007 SP1, and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, does not enforce CPU privilege-level requirements for all machine instructions, which allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary kernel-mode code and gain privileges within the guest OS via a crafted application, aka "Virtual PC and Virtual Server Privileged Instruction Decoding Vulnerability."