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CWE-416 (释放后使用) — Vulnerability Class 2504

2504 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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2023-38169 Microsoft SQL OLE DB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL Server 8.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-38184 Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.5 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-35382 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-35380 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-36882 Microsoft WDAC OLE DB provider for SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 8.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-29330 Microsoft Teams Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft Teams for Desktop 8.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-29328 Microsoft Teams Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft Teams for Desktop 8.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-39549 Siemens Solid Edge 资源管理错误漏洞 — Solid Edge SE2023 7.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-28830 Siemens 多款产品 资源管理错误漏洞 — JT2Go 7.8 High2023-08-08
CVE-2023-28577 Multiple Dmabuf Kernel Address UAF Vulnerability — Snapdragon 6.7 Medium2023-08-08
CVE-2023-4147 Kernel: netfilter: nf_tables_newrule when adding a rule with nfta_rule_chain_id leads to use-after-free — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 7.8 High2023-08-07
CVE-2023-4132 Kernel: smsusb: use-after-free caused by do_submit_urb() — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 5.5 Medium2023-08-03
CVE-2023-4133 Kernel: cxgb4: use-after-free in ch_flower_stats_cb() — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 5.5 Medium2023-08-03
CVE-2023-4004 Kernel: netfilter: use-after-free due to improper element removal in nft_pipapo_remove() — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 7.8 High2023-07-31
CVE-2023-38669 PaddlePaddle 资源管理错误漏洞 — PaddlePaddle 8.3 High2023-07-26
CVE-2023-35943 Envoy vulnerable to CORS filter segfault when origin header is removed — envoy 6.3 Medium2023-07-25
CVE-2023-35942 Envoy's gRPC access log crash caused by the listener draining — envoy 6.5 Medium2023-07-25
CVE-2023-3567 Kernel: use after free in vcs_read in drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c due to race — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 7.1 High2023-07-24
CVE-2023-3019 Qemu: e1000e: heap use-after-free in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 6.0 Medium2023-07-24
CVE-2023-3863 Use-after-free in nfc_llcp_find_loca in net/nfc/llcp_core.c — Kernel 6.4 Medium2023-07-24
CVE-2023-3776 Use-after-free in Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component — Kernel 7.8 High2023-07-21
CVE-2023-3610 Use-after-free in Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component — Kernel 7.8 High2023-07-21
CVE-2023-3609 Use-after-free in Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_u32 component — Kernel 7.8 High2023-07-21
CVE-2023-28744 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 High2023-07-19
CVE-2023-27379 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 High2023-07-19
CVE-2023-33866 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 High2023-07-19
CVE-2023-33876 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 High2023-07-19
CVE-2023-2912 SiteManager Embedded service disruption — SiteManager Embedded 5.9 Medium2023-07-17
CVE-2023-36833 Junos OS Evolved: PTX10001-36MR, and PTX10004, PTX10008, PTX10016 with LC1201/1202: The aftman-bt process will crash in a MoFRR scenario after multiple link flaps — Junos OS Evolved 6.5 Medium2023-07-14
CVE-2023-2763 Use-After-Free, Out-of-bounds Write and Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities exist in the DWG and DXF file reading procedure in SOLIDWORKS Desktop from Release SOLIDWORKS 2021 through Release SOLIDWORKS 2023 — SOLIDWORKS Desktop 7.8 High2023-07-12

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-416 (释放后使用) represent 2504 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.