CVE-2012-1889 listed 5 times in Programs and Features Win 7 x64 - are they virus-related?

I am trying to clean up my laptop (Sony Vaio Z1290X) of stuff and I have discovered that there are 5 entries of CVE-2012-1889.

There is not other info about them except that they were installed on 1/24/2013.

Googling about them --quite a few people raised questions about them in June of 2012, including on MS's own web forums. The only thing I can get is that they are connected to some malware vulnerability but MS is ducking what to do about them

As I said, my entries are all from 1/24/2013. I don't know if this means they are patches that fixed the vulnerabilities from before, there's been no explanation of the multiple copies installed -- different people have different numbers of copies up to 6 of them.

There are a lot of websites that call the a virus -- which I don't think they are but they create vulnerabilities to viruses. A number of sites talk about how to remove them -- but I don't know these sites and don't know whether any are trustworthy.

Can anyone help?

 

Not sure if you saw these addresses before, so I'll link to them if you want to investigate further. Straight from Microsoft, safe to use:

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2719615

Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution


Edit: Always backup first... Just in case. And have system restore turned on, at least for a "possible" reversal.