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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-26107 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-26132 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-25189 Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-25178 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-25171 Windows Authentication Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-25170 Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 22H3 7.0 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-25167 Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.4 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-24292 Windows Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-24289 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-24285 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft Office for Android 7.0 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-23669 RPC Runtime Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 8.8 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-23667 Broadcast DVR Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High2026-03-10
CVE-2026-28688 ImageMagick has a heap use-after-free in the MSL encoder — ImageMagick 4.0 Medium2026-03-09
CVE-2026-28687 ImageMagick has a Heap Use-After-Free in ImageMagick MSL decoder — ImageMagick 5.3 Medium2026-03-09
CVE-2026-28799 PJSIP: Heap use-after-free in PJSIP presence subscription termination handler — pjproject 9.8 -2026-03-06
CVE-2025-13350 Use-after-free of orphaned AF_UNIX in Ubuntu builds of Linux kernel — Ubuntu Linux 5.5 -2026-03-05
CVE-2026-22040 NanoMQ 0.24.6 Use-After-Free Leading to Heap Corruption and Broker Crash — nanomq 5.3 Medium2026-03-04
CVE-2025-47386 Use After Free in Automotive Audio — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-03-02
CVE-2025-47381 Use After Free in Automotive Audio — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-03-02
CVE-2025-47379 Use After Free in Automotive Audio — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-03-02
CVE-2025-47377 Use After Free in Automotive Audio — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-03-02
CVE-2025-47376 Use After Free in Automotive Audio — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-03-02
CVE-2025-47375 Use After Free in Automotive Audio — Snapdragon 7.8 High2026-03-02
CVE-2026-20443 MediaTek Chipsets 安全漏洞 — MediaTek chipset 6.7AIMediumAI2026-03-02
CVE-2026-20442 MediaTek Chipsets 安全漏洞 — MediaTek chipset 4.4AIMediumAI2026-03-02
CVE-2026-20439 MediaTek Chipsets 安全漏洞 — MediaTek chipset 4.4AIMediumAI2026-03-02
CVE-2026-20437 MediaTek Chipsets 安全漏洞 — MediaTek chipset 4.4AIMediumAI2026-03-02
CVE-2026-27950 FreeRDP heap-use-after-free in update_pointer_new(SDL): Fix Applied in the Wrong File — FreeRDP 9.8AICriticalAI2026-02-25
CVE-2026-26986 FreeRDP has heap-use-after-free in rail_window_free — FreeRDP 9.1AICriticalAI2026-02-25
CVE-2026-25997 FreeRDP has heap-use-after-free in xf_clipboard_format_equal — FreeRDP 9.8AICriticalAI2026-02-25

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.