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CWE-416 (释放后使用) — Vulnerability Class 2435

2435 vulnerabilities classified as CWE-416 (释放后使用). AI Chinese analysis included.

CWE-416, Use After Free, is a critical memory safety weakness occurring when a program continues to reference a memory location after it has been deallocated. Attackers typically exploit this vulnerability by freeing an object and then rapidly reallocating that same memory block with attacker-controlled data. Because the original pointer still points to the now-invalid address, the application may inadvertently execute malicious code or corrupt memory structures, often leading to arbitrary code execution or denial of service. To prevent this, developers must rigorously manage memory lifecycles by nullifying pointers immediately after freeing them, ensuring no dangling references remain. Utilizing modern programming languages with automatic garbage collection or employing static analysis tools to detect invalid memory accesses further mitigates the risk, ensuring that freed memory is never accessed again during the program’s execution.

MITRE CWE Description
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Common Consequences (4)
IntegrityModify Memory
The use of previously freed memory may corrupt valid data, if the memory area in question has been allocated and used properly elsewhere.
AvailabilityDoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
If chunk consolidation occurs after the use of previously freed data, the process may crash when invalid data is used as chunk information.
ConfidentialityRead Memory
Read operations on freed memory can sometimes leak sensitive information instead of causing a crash
Integrity, Confidentiality, AvailabilityExecute Unauthorized Code or Commands
If malicious data is entered before chunk consolidation can take place, it may be possible to take advantage of a write-what-where primitive to execute arbitrary code. If the newly allocated data happens to hold a class, in C++ for example, various function pointers may be scattered within the heap …
Mitigations (2)
Architecture and DesignChoose a language that provides automatic memory management.
ImplementationWhen freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.
Effectiveness: Defense in Depth
Examples (2)
The following example demonstrates the weakness.
#include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #define BUFSIZER1 512 #define BUFSIZER2 ((BUFSIZER1/2) - 8) int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *buf1R1; char *buf2R1; char *buf2R2; char *buf3R2; buf1R1 = (char *) malloc(BUFSIZER1); buf2R1 = (char *) malloc(BUFSIZER1); free(buf2R1); buf2R2 = (char *) malloc(BUFSIZER2); buf3R2 = (char *) malloc(BUFSIZER2); strncpy(buf2R1, argv[1], BUFSIZER1-1); free(buf1R1); free(buf2R2); free(buf3R2); }
Bad · C
The following code illustrates a use after free error:
char* ptr = (char*)malloc (SIZE); if (err) { abrt = 1; free(ptr); } ... if (abrt) { logError("operation aborted before commit", ptr); }
Bad · C
CVE IDTitleCVSSSeverityPublished
CVE-2025-13845 Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Power Build Rapsody 资源管理错误漏洞 — EcoStruxure Power Build Rapsody 7.8AIHighAI2026-01-15
CVE-2026-22857 FreeRDP has a heap-use-after-free in irp_thread_func — FreeRDP 9.8 -2026-01-14
CVE-2026-21287 Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Substance3D - Stager 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20952 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.4 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20950 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20871 Desktop Window Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20870 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20854 Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.5 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-21219 Inbox COM Objects (Global Memory) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows SDK 7.0 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20953 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.4 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20923 Windows Management Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20924 Windows Management Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20920 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 22H3 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20877 Windows Management Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20865 Windows Management Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20859 Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20858 Windows Management Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20842 Microsoft DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.0 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20844 Windows Clipboard Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.4 High2026-01-13
CVE-2026-20822 Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High2026-01-13
CVE-2025-10865 GPU DDK - DevmemIntGetReservationData does not ref the PMR it returns — Graphics DDK 7.8AIHighAI2026-01-13
CVE-2025-58411 GPU DDK - Reservation::psMappedPMR can change while used by a freelist -> UAF — Graphics DDK 7.8AIHighAI2026-01-13
CVE-2025-68656 Espressif ESP-IDF USB Host HID (Human Interface Device) Driver Descriptor Use-After-Free Vulnerability — esp-usb 6.8 Medium2026-01-12
CVE-2025-47339 Use After Free in HLOS — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-01-06
CVE-2025-47337 Use After Free in Camera Driver — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2026-01-06
CVE-2025-47336 Use After Free in Camera Driver — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2026-01-06
CVE-2025-47333 Use After Free in HLOS — Snapdragon 6.6 Medium2026-01-06
CVE-2025-20806 MediaTek chipsets 安全漏洞 — MediaTek chipset 6.7 -2026-01-06
CVE-2025-20805 MediaTek chipsets 安全漏洞 — MediaTek chipset 6.7 -2026-01-06
CVE-2025-20804 MediaTek chipsets 安全漏洞 — MediaTek chipset 7.8 -2026-01-06

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-416 (释放后使用) represent 2435 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.