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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2025-0427 Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows access to already freed memory — Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver 7.8AIHighAI2025-05-02
CVE-2025-0072 Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows improper GPU memory processing operations — Valhall GPU Kernel Driver 7.8AIHighAI2025-05-02
CVE-2025-27365 IBM MQ Operator denial of service — MQ Operator 6.5 Medium2025-05-01
CVE-2025-30194 Denial of service via crafted DoH exchange — DNSdist 7.5 High2025-04-29
CVE-2025-1048 Sonos Era 300 Speaker libsmb2 Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Era 300 8.8 -2025-04-23
CVE-2025-1046 Luxion KeyShot SKP File Parsing Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — KeyShot 7.8 -2025-04-23
CVE-2025-3620 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2025-04-16
CVE-2025-3416 Rust-openssl: rust-openssl use-after-free in `md::fetch` and `cipher::fetch` 3.7 Low2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27200 Animate | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Animate 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27730 Windows Digital Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27729 Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27491 Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.1 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27480 Windows Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2012 8.1 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27467 Windows Digital Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-26679 RPC Endpoint Mapper Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-26671 Windows Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 8.1 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-26670 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 8.1 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-26640 Windows Digital Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-29824 Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-29823 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-29820 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-29792 Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.3 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27750 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27751 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27749 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27748 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27746 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27745 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-27476 Windows Digital Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-26687 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft Office for Android 7.5 High2025-04-08

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.