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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2025-24064 Windows Domain Name Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 8.1 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24046 Kernel Streaming Service Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24081 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24082 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24080 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24079 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24078 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.0 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24077 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-24044 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-23402 Siemens Teamcenter 资源管理错误漏洞 — Teamcenter Visualization V14.3 7.8 High2025-03-11
CVE-2025-2136 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2025-03-10
CVE-2024-12837 GPU DDK - Exploitable kernel double free on apsFenceSyncCheckpoints allocated with arbitrary size — Graphics DDK 7.8 -2025-03-07
CVE-2025-1916 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2025-03-05
CVE-2025-24301 Arkcompiler Ets Runtime has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 3.8 Low2025-03-04
CVE-2025-23414 Arkcompiler Ets Runtime has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 3.8 Low2025-03-04
CVE-2025-23409 Communication Dsoftbus has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 3.8 Low2025-03-04
CVE-2025-20626 Arkcompiler Ets Runtime has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 3.8 Low2025-03-04
CVE-2025-20091 Communication Dsoftbus has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 3.8 Low2025-03-04
CVE-2025-20081 Communication Dsoftbus has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 3.8 Low2025-03-04
CVE-2025-21424 Use After Free in NPU — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-03-03
CVE-2024-53023 Use After Free in Automotive Android OS — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-03-03
CVE-2024-45580 Use After Free in DSP Service — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-03-03
CVE-2024-43062 Use After Free in Camera Linux — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-03-03
CVE-2024-43061 Use After Free in Audio — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-03-03
CVE-2024-43059 Use After Free in Automotive Multimedia — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-03-03
CVE-2024-43057 Use After Free in MProc — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-03-03
CVE-2024-27239 Zoom Workplace Apps and SDKs - Divide By Zero — Zoom Workplace Apps and SDKs 4.3 Medium2025-02-25
CVE-2024-27246 Zoom Workplace Apps and SDKs - Use After Free — Zoom Workplace Apps and SDKs 4.3 Medium2025-02-25
CVE-2025-26601 Xorg: xwayland: use-after-free in syncinittrigger() 7.8 High2025-02-25
CVE-2025-26600 Xorg: xwayland: use-after-free in playreleasedevents() 7.8 High2025-02-25

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.