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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2018-14809 Fuji Electric V-Server VPR 安全漏洞 — V-Server 9.8 -2018-09-26
CVE-2018-10496 Samsung Internet Browser 安全漏洞 — Samsung Internet Browser 8.8 -2018-09-24
CVE-2018-14625 Linux kernel 资源管理错误漏洞 — kernel 7.4 -2018-09-10
CVE-2018-6555 Linux kernel 安全漏洞 — Linux Kernel 7.8 -2018-09-04
CVE-2018-14619 Linux kernel crypto子系统安全漏洞 — kernel 7.8 -2018-08-30
CVE-2018-10902 Linux kernel 安全漏洞 — kernel 7.8 -2018-08-21
CVE-2016-8619 Haxx curl 远程安全漏洞 — curl 9.8 -2018-08-01
CVE-2016-8623 Haxx curl 安全漏洞 — curl 6.5 -2018-08-01
CVE-2016-8618 Haxx curl 安全漏洞 — curl 9.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-11617 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-11618 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-11619 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14283 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14284 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14288 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14291 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14292 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14293 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14294 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14296 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14297 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14298 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14299 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14301 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14302 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14303 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14304 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14305 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14306 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31
CVE-2018-14307 Foxit Reader和PhantomPDF 安全漏洞 — Foxit Reader 8.8 -2018-07-31

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.