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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2024-47814 use-after-free when closing buffers in Vim — vim 3.9 Low2024-10-07
CVE-2024-43047 Use After Free in DSP Service — Snapdragon 7.8 High2024-10-07
CVE-2024-38399 Use After Free in Graphics — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-10-07
CVE-2024-33069 Use After Free in WLAN Host — Snapdragon 7.5 High2024-10-07
CVE-2024-23376 Use After Free in ComputerVision — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2024-10-07
CVE-2024-23370 Use After Free in Automotive Multimedia — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2024-10-07
CVE-2024-0124 NVIDIA CUDA toolkit 资源管理错误漏洞 — CUDA Toolkit 3.3 Low2024-10-03
CVE-2024-28888 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 High2024-10-02
CVE-2024-7675 DWFX File Parsing Vulnerabilities in Autodesk Navisworks Desktop Software — Navisworks Freedom 7.8 High2024-09-30
CVE-2024-23923 Alpine Halo9 prh_l2_sar_data_ind Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Halo9 8.8 High2024-09-28
CVE-2024-9120 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-09-24
CVE-2021-38023 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-09-23
CVE-2024-8947 MicroPython objarray.c use after free — MicroPython 5.6 Medium2024-09-17
CVE-2024-41869 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2024-09-13
CVE-2024-43758 Illustrator | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Illustrator 7.8 High2024-09-13
CVE-2024-39385 Premiere Pro | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Premiere Pro 5.5 Medium2024-09-13
CVE-2024-8639 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-09-11
CVE-2024-8637 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-09-11
CVE-2024-43491 Microsoft Windows Update Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1507 9.8 Critical2024-09-10
CVE-2024-38119 Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.5 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-38259 Microsoft Management Console Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2022 8.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-38248 Windows Storage Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows Server 2022 7.0 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-38235 Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 6.5 Medium2024-09-10
CVE-2024-43465 Microsoft Excel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft Office 2019 7.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-43463 Microsoft Office Visio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft Office 2019 7.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-38253 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 21H2 7.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-38252 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-38249 Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-26186 Microsoft SQL Server Native Scoring Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (GDR) 8.8 High2024-09-10
CVE-2024-45107 ZDI-CAN-24186: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Doc Object Use-After-Free Information Disclosure Vulnerability — Acrobat Reader 5.5 Medium2024-09-05

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.