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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."

Published Jul 15, 2009

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."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (6)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published Jul 15, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved May 5, 2009
Link CVE-2009-1542
CISA Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2009-1542
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2009-1542
ENISA EUVD
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