Buffer overflow in Sony Smartwi Connection Utillity
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 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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.130 (95.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sony Smartwi_connection_utillity — versions 4.7, 4.7.4, 4.8
- Sony Vaio_easy_connect — versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0
- Sony Vaio_pc_wireless_lan_wizard — versions 1.0
- Sony Vaio_wireless_wizard — versions 1.00, 1.00_64, 1.01
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)