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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2025-26681 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 6.7 Medium2025-04-08
CVE-2025-26663 Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 8.1 High2025-04-08
CVE-2025-31498 c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers() — c-ares 7.5AIHighAI2025-04-08
CVE-2025-21437 Use After Free in Automotive Linux OS — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-04-07
CVE-2025-21436 Use After Free in DSP Service — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-04-07
CVE-2024-49848 Use After Free in DSP Service — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2025-04-07
CVE-2024-45544 Use After Free in Data Network Stack & Connectivity — Snapdragon 6.6 Medium2025-04-07
CVE-2024-45540 Use After Free in HLOS — Snapdragon 6.6 Medium2025-04-07
CVE-2024-43066 Use After Free in HLOS — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-04-07
CVE-2024-11235 Reference counting in php_request_shutdown causes Use-After-Free — PHP 9.8AICriticalAI2025-04-04
CVE-2025-29815 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) 7.6 High2025-04-04
CVE-2025-3066 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2025-04-02
CVE-2025-2913 HDF5 H5FL.c H5FL__blk_gc_list use after free — HDF5 3.3 Low2025-03-28
CVE-2025-30232 Exim 安全漏洞 — Exim 8.1 High2025-03-27
CVE-2025-2532 Luxion KeyShot USDC File Parsing Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — KeyShot 7.8 -2025-03-25
CVE-2025-0835 GPU DDK - _WrapExtMemReleasePages called twice if _FlushUMVirtualRange fails — Graphics DDK 7.8AIHighAI2025-03-24
CVE-2025-2476 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2025-03-19
CVE-2024-55549 Libxslt 资源管理错误漏洞 — libxslt 7.8 High2025-03-14
CVE-2025-24855 Libxslt 资源管理错误漏洞 — libxslt 7.8 High2025-03-14
CVE-2025-1432 3DM File Parsing Use-After-Free Vulnerability — AutoCAD 7.8 High2025-03-13
CVE-2025-2013 Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt CO File Parsing Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Cobalt 7.8 -2025-03-11
CVE-2025-27181 Substance3D - Modeler | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Substance3D - Modeler 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-27174 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-27160 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-27159 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-0151 Zoom Apps - Use After Free — Zoom Workplace Apps 8.5 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-26629 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-26630 Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24983 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.0 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24072 Microsoft Local Security Authority (LSA) Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-03-11

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.