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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2024-47891 GPU DDK - Exploitable double free on PTL_STREAM_DESC object in the kernel function TLServerCloseStreamKM due to a race condition — Graphics DDK 7.8 -2025-01-31
CVE-2025-0762 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2025-01-29
CVE-2024-0147 NVIDIA GPU 资源管理错误漏洞 — NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, vGPU software 5.5 Medium2025-01-28
CVE-2022-49043 libxml2 安全漏洞 — libxml2 8.1 High2025-01-26
CVE-2025-21334 Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21372 Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21307 Windows Reliable Multicast Transport Driver (RMCAST) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 9.8 Critical2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21335 Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21366 Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21362 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.4 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21345 Microsoft Office Visio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21315 Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21304 Microsoft DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21297 Windows Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 8.1 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21298 Windows OLE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 9.8 Critical2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21296 BranchCache Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.5 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21295 SPNEGO Extended Negotiation (NEGOEX) Security Mechanism Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 8.1 High2025-01-14
CVE-2025-21281 Microsoft COM for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 7.8 High2025-01-14
CVE-2024-56434 Huawei HarmonyOS 安全漏洞 — HarmonyOS 4.4 Medium2025-01-08
CVE-2024-54030 Communication_dsoftbus has an UAF vulnerability — OpenHarmony 4.4 Medium2025-01-07
CVE-2024-46981 Redis' Lua library commands may lead to remote code execution — redis 7.0 High2025-01-06
CVE-2024-45553 Use After Free in DSP Services — Snapdragon 7.8 High2025-01-06
CVE-2024-33059 Use After Free in Computer Vision — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2025-01-06
CVE-2024-33055 Use After Free in Computer Vision — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2025-01-06
CVE-2024-46973 Exploitable kernel use-after-free on psServerMMUContext due to reference count mismanagement — Graphics DDK 7.8 -2024-12-28
CVE-2021-32589 Fortinet FortiManager 和 Fortinet FortiAnalyzer 资源管理错误漏洞 — FortiManager 7.7 High2024-12-19
CVE-2022-44518 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2024-12-18
CVE-2022-44519 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 5.5 Medium2024-12-18
CVE-2022-44520 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2024-12-18
CVE-2022-44514 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2024-12-18

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.