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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-21380 Use After Free in DSP Service — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-04-06
CVE-2025-47374 Use After Free in Camera Driver — Snapdragon 6.5 Medium2026-04-06
CVE-2026-34774 Electron: Use-after-free in offscreen child window paint callback — electron 8.1 High2026-04-03
CVE-2026-34772 Electron: Use-after-free in download save dialog callback — electron 5.8 Medium2026-04-03
CVE-2026-34771 Electron: Use-after-free in WebContents fullscreen, pointer-lock, and keyboard-lock permission callbacks — electron 7.5 High2026-04-03
CVE-2026-34770 Electron: Use-after-free in PowerMonitor on Windows and macOS — electron 7.0 High2026-04-03
CVE-2026-5289 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 9.6 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5290 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 9.6 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5287 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5273 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5288 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 9.6AICriticalAI2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5286 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5285 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5284 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5281 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5278 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-04-01
CVE-2026-5280 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-04-01
CVE-2026-3779 Foxit PDF Editor/Reader List Box Calculate Array Use-After-Free Vulnerability — Foxit PDF Editor 7.8 High2026-04-01
CVE-2026-3777 Use after free of view cache in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader — Foxit PDF Editor 5.5 Medium2026-04-01
CVE-2026-27309 Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Substance3D - Stager 7.8 High2026-03-27
CVE-2024-14028 Multiple implicit reads in parallel can result in a crash or denial of service — smartLink HW-DP 6.5 Medium2026-03-27
CVE-2026-33416 LIBPNG has use-after-free via pointer aliasing in `png_set_tRNS` and `png_set_PLTE` — libpng 7.5 High2026-03-26
CVE-2026-27828 EVerest: ISO15118 session_setup use-after-free can crash EVSE process — everest-core 7.5 -2026-03-26
CVE-2026-27813 EVerest has use-after-free in auth timeout timer via race condition — everest-core 5.3 Medium2026-03-26
CVE-2026-33526 Squid vulnerable to Denial of Service in ICP Request handling — squid 7.5 -2026-03-26
CVE-2026-28529 cryptodev-linux <= 1.14 get_userbuf Use After Free LPE — cryptodev-linux 7.8 -2026-03-25
CVE-2026-4752 Use After Free in No-Chicken Echo-Mate — Echo-Mate 6.4 Medium2026-03-24
CVE-2026-4737 Use-After-Free Vulnerability in No-Chicken/Echo-Mate — Echo-Mate 8.8 -2026-03-24
CVE-2026-4678 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-24
CVE-2026-4680 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-24

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.