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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-4676 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 9.6 -2026-03-24
CVE-2026-33150 Use After Free in libfuse — libfuse 7.8 High2026-03-20
CVE-2026-32942 PJSIP has ICE session use-after-free race conditions — pjproject 8.1 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-4458 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-4456 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 9.6 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-4454 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-4449 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-4446 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-4445 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-4441 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8 -2026-03-20
CVE-2026-31972 samtools mpileup has use-after-free leading to an invalid read — samtools 7.1 -2026-03-18
CVE-2026-4148 ExpressionContext use-after-free in classic engine $lookup and $graphLookup aggregation operators — MongoDB Server 8.8 High2026-03-17
CVE-2026-4271 Libsoup: libsoup: denial of service via use-after-free in http/2 server — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 5.3 Medium2026-03-17
CVE-2026-32724 PX4 autopilot has a heap Use-After-Free in MavlinkShell::available() via SERIAL_CONTROL Race Condition — PX4-Autopilot 5.3 Medium2026-03-13
CVE-2026-3979 quickjs-ng quickjs quickjs.c js_iterator_concat_return use after free — quickjs 5.3 Medium2026-03-12
CVE-2026-3936 Google Chrome on Android 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-3924 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 9.6AICriticalAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-3923 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-3922 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-3921 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-3919 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-3918 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-3917 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-03-11
CVE-2026-27278 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-27220 Acrobat Reader | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-26330 Envoy global rate limit may crash when the response phase limit is enabled and the response phase request is failed directly — envoy 5.3 Medium2026-03-10
CVE-2026-26311 Envoy HTTP: filter chain execution on reset streams causing UAF crash — envoy 5.9 Medium2026-03-10
CVE-2026-27277 Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Substance3D - Stager 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-27276 Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Substance3D - Stager 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-30978 Heap-use-after-free in CIccCmm::AddXform() — iccDEV 7.8 High2026-03-10

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.