CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1542
9.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-07-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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 configurations
• microsoft virtual pc 2004
• microsoft virtual pc 2007
• microsoft virtual server 2005
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35808 secunia.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022544 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-195A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1890 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-033 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6166 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35808 secunia.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022544 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-195A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1890 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-033 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6166 oval.cisecurity.org