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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2025-53738 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53735 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53734 Microsoft Office Visio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53731 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.4 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53721 Windows Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53718 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.0 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53151 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53152 Desktop Windows Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53147 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.0 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53142 Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 22H2 7.0 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53140 Windows Kernel Transaction Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.0 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53137 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.0 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53133 Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-50177 Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 8.1 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-50159 Remote Access Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) EAP-TLS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.3 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-50153 Desktop Window Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-49761 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53761 Microsoft PowerPoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-53730 Microsoft Office Visio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-08-12
CVE-2025-49568 Illustrator | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Illustrator 5.5 Medium2025-08-12
CVE-2025-55157 Vim heap use-after-free vulnerability when processing recursive tuple data types — vim 8.8AIHighAI2025-08-11
CVE-2025-8842 NASM Netwide Assember preproc.c do_directive use after free — Netwide Assember 5.3 Medium2025-08-11
CVE-2025-8837 JasPer JPEG2000 File jpc_dec.c jpc_dec_dump use after free — JasPer 5.3 Medium2025-08-11
CVE-2025-27128 liteos_a has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 8.4 High2025-08-11
CVE-2025-24298 liteos_a has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 8.4 High2025-08-11
CVE-2025-46709 GPU DDK - Security fix for PP-171570 can lead to an uninitialised pointer dereference and memory leak — Graphics DDK 7.1 -2025-08-08
CVE-2025-8578 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2025-08-07
CVE-2025-8576 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2025-08-07
CVE-2025-21474 Use After Free in BTHOST — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-08-06
CVE-2025-21458 Use After Free in NPU — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-08-06

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.