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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2021-20226 Linux kernel 资源管理错误漏洞 — kernel 7.8 -2021-02-23
CVE-2021-21039 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2021-02-11
CVE-2021-21041 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2021-02-11
CVE-2021-21021 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 8.8 -2021-02-11
CVE-2021-21028 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 8.8 -2021-02-11
CVE-2021-21033 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 8.8 -2021-02-11
CVE-2021-21035 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 8.8 -2021-02-11
CVE-2021-21040 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2021-02-11
CVE-2021-21061 Acrobat Pro DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead to Information Disclosure — Acrobat Reader 3.3 -2021-02-11
CVE-2020-13548 Adobe Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit 8.8 -2021-02-10
CVE-2020-27280 Delta Electronics ISPSoft 资源管理错误漏洞 — ISPSoft 7.8 -2021-01-26
CVE-2020-16119 DCCP CCID structure use-after-free — Linux kernel 6.3 Medium2021-01-14
CVE-2020-27267 Kepware Kepserverex 缓冲区错误漏洞 — PTC Kepware KEPServerEX 9.8 -2021-01-13
CVE-2020-27835 Linux kernel 资源管理错误漏洞 — kernel 5.5 -2021-01-07
CVE-2020-8265 nodejs 资源管理错误漏洞 — Node 8.1 -2021-01-06
CVE-2020-13570 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit 8.8 -2020-12-22
CVE-2020-13560 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit 8.8 -2020-12-22
CVE-2020-13557 Foxit Reader 资源管理错误漏洞 — Foxit 8.8 -2020-12-22
CVE-2020-8231 Haxx libcurl 资源管理错误漏洞 — https://github.com/curl/curl--2020-12-14
CVE-2020-27786 Linux kernel 资源管理错误漏洞 — kernel 7.8 -2020-12-11
CVE-2020-25663 Imagemagick Studio ImageMagick 资源管理错误漏洞 — ImageMagick 5.5 -2020-12-08
CVE-2020-14351 Linux kernel 资源管理错误漏洞 — kernel 7.8 -2020-12-03
CVE-2020-13531 Pixar OpenUSD 资源管理错误漏洞 — Pixar 7.8 -2020-12-03
CVE-2020-14381 linux kernel 资源管理错误漏洞 — kernel 7.8 -2020-12-03
CVE-2020-25656 Linux kernel资源管理错误漏洞 — kernel 4.7 -2020-12-02
CVE-2019-2393 Crash while joining collections with $lookup — MongoDB Server 6.5 Medium2020-11-23
CVE-2020-25725 Xpdf 资源管理错误漏洞 — xpdf 5.0 Medium2020-11-21
CVE-2020-24438 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead to Information Disclosure — Acrobat Reader 3.3 Low2020-11-05
CVE-2020-24430 Acrobat Pro DC Use-After-Free vulnerability Could Lead to Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2020-11-05
CVE-2020-24437 Acrobat Reader DC Use-After-Free Vulnerability Could Lead to Arbitrary Code Execution — Acrobat Reader 7.8 High2020-11-05

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.