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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2021-23134 Linux kernel llcp_sock_bind/connect use-after-free — Linux Kernel 7.8 High2021-05-12
CVE-2021-21822 Foxit Reader for Windows 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit 8.8 -2021-05-10
CVE-2021-31470 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31460 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31459 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31458 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31457 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31456 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31455 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31453 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31451 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31450 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-31441 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Reader 7.8 -2021-05-07
CVE-2021-21417 Use after free in fluidsynth — fluidsynth 7.2 High2021-04-29
CVE-2021-0262 Junos OS: QFX10002-60C: Use after free vulnerability found during static code analysis — Junos OS 6.5 Medium2021-04-22
CVE-2021-3497 GStreamer 资源管理错误漏洞 — gstreamer-plugins-good 7.8 -2021-04-19
CVE-2021-27268 Foxit PhantomPDF 资源管理错误漏洞 — PhantomPDF 7.8 -2021-03-30
CVE-2021-27267 Foxit PhantomPDF 资源管理错误漏洞 — PhantomPDF 7.8 -2021-03-30
CVE-2021-29093 ArcGIS Server image service and raster analytics security update: use-after-free — ArcGIS Server 6.8 -2021-03-25
CVE-2021-29096 ArcGIS general raster security update: use-after-free — ArcReader 7.8 -2021-03-25
CVE-2021-3392 QEMU 资源管理错误漏洞 — QEMU 3.2 -2021-03-23
CVE-2021-20227 SQLite 资源管理错误漏洞 — sqlite 7.1 -2021-03-23
CVE-2021-20232 GnuTLS 资源管理错误漏洞 — gnutls 9.8 -2021-03-12
CVE-2021-20231 GnuTLS 资源管理错误漏洞 — gnutls 9.8 -2021-03-12
CVE-2021-27646 Synology DiskStation Manager 资源管理错误漏洞 — Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) 9.8 Critical2021-03-12
CVE-2020-1900 Facebook HHVM 资源管理错误漏洞 — HHVM 9.4 -2021-03-11
CVE-2021-3403 ytnef 资源管理错误漏洞 — ytnef 7.8 -2021-03-04
CVE-2020-13558 WebKitGTK 资源管理错误漏洞 — Webkit 8.8 -2021-03-03
CVE-2020-25632 grub2 资源管理错误漏洞 — grub2 8.2 -2021-03-03
CVE-2021-22662 FATEK FvDesigner 资源管理错误漏洞 — Fatek FvDesigner 7.8 -2021-03-03

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.