CVE-2012-0985
Sony VAIO PC Wireless LAN Wizard 1.0-4.11 - Buffer Overflow
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2012-0985. PoCs published by High-Tech Bridge SA.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit demonstrates a buffer overflow vulnerability in Sony VAIO Wireless Manager via crafted HTML/JS that triggers unsafe methods in WifiMan.dll. It crashes the application by passing oversized strings to SetTmpProfileOption() or ConnectToNetwork().
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.
Exploits (1)
The exploit demonstrates a buffer overflow vulnerability in Sony VAIO Wireless Manager via crafted HTML/JS that triggers unsafe methods in WifiMan.dll. It crashes the application by passing oversized strings to SetTmpProfileOption() or ConnectToNetwork().