CVE-2012-0985: Sony Smartwi Connection Utillity

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sony Smartwi Connection Utillity: version 4.7 only; version 4.7.4 only; version 4.8 only; version 4.9 only; version 4.10 only; version 4.11 only
• Sony Vaio Easy Connect: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.1.0 only
• Sony Vaio Pc Wireless Lan Wizard: version 1.0 only
• Sony Vaio Wireless Wizard: version 1.00 only; version 1.00_64 only; version 1.01 only; version 2.0 only; version 3.0 only

Published 2012-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.