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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2024-38140 Windows Reliable Multicast Transport Driver (RMCAST) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 9.8 Critical2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38141 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38138 Windows Deployment Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2019 7.5 High2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38136 Windows Resource Manager PSM Service Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38107 Windows Power Dependency Coordinator Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38199 Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 9.8 Critical2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38193 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High2024-08-13
CVE-2024-38159 Windows Network Virtualization Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 9.1 Critical2024-08-13
CVE-2024-7536 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-7533 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-7000 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-6997 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-6998 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-6991 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-6989 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-6988 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-08-06
CVE-2024-33034 Use After Free in Graphics Linux — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-33028 Use After Free in Automotive Telematics — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-33023 Use After Free in Graphics Linux — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-33010 Use After Free in WLAN Host — Snapdragon 7.5 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-23384 Use After Free in Graphics Linux — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-23383 Use After Free in Graphics Linux — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-23382 Use After Free in Graphics Linux — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-23381 Use After Free in Graphics Linux — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-08-05
CVE-2024-4607 Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows improper GPU memory processing operations — Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver 7.8AIHighAI2024-08-05
CVE-2024-2937 Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows improper GPU memory processing operations — Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver 7.8AIHighAI2024-08-05
CVE-2024-41965 Vim < v9.1.0648 has a double-free in dialog_changed() — vim 4.2 Medium2024-08-01
CVE-2024-39672 Huawei EMUI和Huawei HarmonyOS 安全漏洞 — HarmonyOS 8.4 High2024-07-25
CVE-2024-6777 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-07-16
CVE-2024-6774 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2024-07-16

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.