CVE-2012-0985
Multiple buffer overflows in the Wireless Manager ActiveX control 4.0.0.0 in WifiMan.dll in Sony VAIO PC Wireless LAN Wizard 1.0; VAIO…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 12.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in the Wireless Manager ActiveX control 4.0.0.0 in WifiMan.dll in Sony VAIO PC Wireless LAN Wizard 1.0; VAIO Wireless Wizard 1.00, 1.00_64, 1.0.1, 2.0, and 3.0; SmartWi Connection Utility 4.7, 4.7.4, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, and 4.11; and VAIO Easy Connect software 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in the second argument of the (1) SetTmpProfileOption or (2) ConnectToNetwork method.
Public exploit
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Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Sony VAIO Wireless Manager 4.0.0.0 - Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18958dos, windowspublished 31 May 2012Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 18958 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.8% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- 20120530 2 Buffer Overflows in Wireless Manager Sony VAIO (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 18958 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 49340 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 82401 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 53735 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/support-info.pl?template_id=1&info_id=946 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- vaio-activex-bo(75978) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-1008 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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