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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2025-21456 Use After Free in NPU — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-08-06
CVE-2025-54635 Huawei HarmonyOS 安全漏洞 — HarmonyOS 5.9 Medium2025-08-06
CVE-2025-54626 Huawei HarmonyOS 安全漏洞 — HarmonyOS 4.4 Medium2025-08-06
CVE-2025-0932 Mali GPU Userspace Driver allows access to already freed memory — Bifrost GPU Userspace Driver 8.8AIHighAI2025-08-04
CVE-2025-23281 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver 资源管理错误漏洞 — GPU Display Drivers 7.0 High2025-08-02
CVE-2025-8292 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2025-07-30
CVE-2025-6636 PRT File Parsing Use-After-Free Vulnerability — Shared Components 7.8 High2025-07-29
CVE-2025-8176 LibTIFF tiffmedian.c get_histogram use after free — LibTIFF 5.3 Medium2025-07-26
CVE-2025-4878 Libssh: use of uninitialized variable in privatekey_from_file() 3.6 Low2025-07-22
CVE-2025-47917 Mbed TLS 资源管理错误漏洞 — mbedtls 8.9 High2025-07-20
CVE-2025-7657 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2025-07-15
CVE-2025-7042 Use After Free vulnerability exists in the IPT file reading procedure in SOLIDWORKS eDrawings on Release SOLIDWORKS Desktop 2025 — SOLIDWORKS eDrawings 7.8 High2025-07-15
CVE-2025-6973 Use After Free vulnerability exists in the JT file reading procedure in SOLIDWORKS eDrawings on Release SOLIDWORKS Desktop 2025 — SOLIDWORKS eDrawings 7.8 High2025-07-15
CVE-2025-6972 Use After Free vulnerability exists in the CATPRODUCT file reading procedure in SOLIDWORKS eDrawings on Release SOLIDWORKS Desktop 2025 — SOLIDWORKS eDrawings 7.8 High2025-07-15
CVE-2025-6971 Use After Free vulnerability exists in the CATPRODUCT file reading procedure in SOLIDWORKS eDrawings on Release SOLIDWORKS Desktop 2025 — SOLIDWORKS eDrawings 7.8 High2025-07-15
CVE-2025-3631 IBM MQ denial of service — MQ 6.5 Medium2025-07-11
CVE-2025-52946 Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: With traceoptions enabled, receipt of malformed AS PATH causes RPD crash — Junos OS 7.5 High2025-07-11
CVE-2025-7425 Libxslt: libxml2: heap use-after-free in libxslt caused by atype corruption in xmlattrptr — libxml2 7.8 High2025-07-10
CVE-2025-49733 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49724 Windows Connected Devices Platform Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 8.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49725 Windows Notification Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49703 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49700 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49699 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.0 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49698 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49695 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.4 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49685 Windows Search Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49682 Windows Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.3 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49675 Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49660 Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-07-08

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.