CVE-2009-1542 Information

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.\

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/35808 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022544 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-195A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1890 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-033 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6166