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."
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: microsoft
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:20:33.430Z
Reserved: 2009-05-05T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2009-1542
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Status : Modified
Published: 2009-07-15T15:30:01.420
Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467
Link: CVE-2009-1542
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