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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-25959 FreeRDP has heap-use-after-free in xf_cliprdr_provide_data_ — FreeRDP 9.1AICriticalAI2026-02-25
CVE-2026-25955 FreeRDP has heap-use-after-free in xf_AppUpdateWindowFromSurface (stale XImage) — FreeRDP 9.8AICriticalAI2026-02-25
CVE-2026-25954 FreeRDP has heap-use-after-free in xf_rail_server_local_move_size — FreeRDP 9.1AICriticalAI2026-02-25
CVE-2026-25953 FreeRDP has heap-use-after-free in xf_AppUpdateWindowFromSurface (freed appWindow) — FreeRDP 9.1AICriticalAI2026-02-25
CVE-2026-25952 FreeRDP has heap-use-after-free in xf_SetWindowMinMaxInfo — FreeRDP 9.1AICriticalAI2026-02-25
CVE-2026-25983 ImageMagick has Use After Free in MSLStartElement in "coders/msl.c" — ImageMagick 5.3 Medium2026-02-24
CVE-2026-2889 CCExtractor mp4.c processmp4 use after free — CCExtractor 3.3 Low2026-02-21
CVE-2026-2408 Use-after-free in Cloud Workloads — Cloud Workloads 4.7 Medium2026-02-19
CVE-2026-26203 PJSIP's pjmedia-video has use-after-free in H264 packetizer when packetizing fragmented NAL — pjmedia-video 9.1 -2026-02-19
CVE-2026-2660 FascinatedBox lily lily_symtab.c shorthash_for_name use after free — lily 3.3 Low2026-02-18
CVE-2026-2656 ChaiScript type_info.hpp bare_equal use after free — ChaiScript 2.5 Low2026-02-18
CVE-2026-2655 ChaiScript chaiscript_defines.hpp operator use after free — ChaiScript 2.5 Low2026-02-18
CVE-2026-25087 Apache Arrow: Potential use-after-free when reading IPC file with pre-buffering — Apache Arrow 9.8AICriticalAI2026-02-17
CVE-2026-2441 Google Chrome 安全漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-02-13
CVE-2026-2321 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-02-11
CVE-2026-2313 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome 8.8AIHighAI2026-02-11
CVE-2025-0031 AMD EPYC Processor 安全漏洞 — AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Processors 6.0AIMediumAI2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21329 After Effects | Use After Free (CWE-416) — After Effects 7.8 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21323 After Effects | Use After Free (CWE-416) — After Effects 7.8 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21326 After Effects | Use After Free (CWE-416) — After Effects 7.8 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21320 After Effects | Use After Free (CWE-416) — After Effects 7.8 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21351 After Effects | Use After Free (CWE-416) — After Effects 7.8 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21241 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 22H3 7.0 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21251 Cluster Client Failover (CCF) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows Server 2016 7.8 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21253 Mailslot File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21242 Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.0 High2026-02-10
CVE-2026-21235 Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.3 High2026-02-10
CVE-2025-15570 ckolivas lrzip stream.c lzma_decompress_buf use after free — lrzip 5.3 Medium2026-02-10
CVE-2026-24684 FreeRDP has a Heap-use-after-free in play_thread — FreeRDP 9.8AICriticalAI2026-02-09
CVE-2026-24683 FreeRDP has a heap-use-after-free in ainput_send_input_event — FreeRDP 9.8AICriticalAI2026-02-09

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.