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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2025-48821 Windows Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Device Host Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.1 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-48806 Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Extension Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-48000 Windows Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49735 Windows KDC Proxy Service (KPSSVC) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2012 8.1 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49726 Windows Notification Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49711 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-47991 Windows Input Method Editor (IME) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-49677 Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 22H2 7.0 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-47986 Universal Print Management Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 8.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-47976 Windows Simple Search and Discovery Protocol (SSDP) Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-27056 Use After Free in DSP Service — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-27050 Use After Free in Camera — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-27047 Use After Free in Display — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-21466 Use After Free in Display — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-07-08
CVE-2025-53185 Huawei EMUI和Huawei HarmonyOS 安全漏洞 — HarmonyOS 6.6 Medium2025-07-07
CVE-2025-52886 Poppler Use After Free Vulnerability — poppler 9.8 -2025-07-02
CVE-2025-0634 SAMSUNG rLottie 安全漏洞 — rLottie 9.8AICriticalAI2025-06-30
CVE-2025-6856 HDF5 H5FL.c H5FL__reg_gc_list use after free — HDF5 3.3 Low2025-06-29
CVE-2025-6706 Running certain aggregation operations with the SBE engine may lead to unexpected behavior on MongoDB Server — MongoDB Server 5.0 Medium2025-06-26
CVE-2025-6640 PDF-XChange Editor U3D File Parsing Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — PDF-XChange Editor 7.8AIHighAI2025-06-25
CVE-2025-6644 PDF-XChange Editor U3D File Parsing Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — PDF-XChange Editor 7.8AIHighAI2025-06-25
CVE-2025-6645 PDF-XChange Editor U3D File Parsing Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — PDF-XChange Editor 7.8AIHighAI2025-06-25
CVE-2025-6646 PDF-XChange Editor U3D File Parsing Use-After-Free Information Disclosure Vulnerability — PDF-XChange Editor 5.5AIMediumAI2025-06-25
CVE-2025-6661 PDF-XChange Editor App Object Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — PDF-XChange Editor 7.8AIHighAI2025-06-25
CVE-2025-6555 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2025-06-24
CVE-2025-48945 pycares has a Use-After-Free Vulnerability — aiodns 7.5AIHighAI2025-06-20
CVE-2025-6275 WebAssembly wabt binary-reader-interp.cc GetFuncOffset use after free — wabt 3.3 Low2025-06-19
CVE-2025-49014 jq heap use after free vulnerability in f_strflocaltime — jq 9.8AICriticalAI2025-06-19
CVE-2025-6192 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2025-06-18
CVE-2025-46710 Imagination GPU Driver 安全漏洞 — Graphics DDK 7.8AIHighAI2025-06-16

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.