Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1542

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-07-15 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:20:33
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

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."