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CWE-416 (释放后使用) — Vulnerability Class 2828

2828 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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-42530 NGINX Open-Source ngx_http_v3_module vulnerability — NGINX Open Source 8.1 High2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12467 Chrome 149.0.7827.155 前版本存在释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12464 Chrome <149.0.7827.155 释放后使用漏洞致沙箱逃逸 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12462 Chrome前149.0.7827.155 Media堆释放漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12455 Chrome 149.0.7827.154前版本Tab Strip释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12452 Chrome <149.0.7827.155 Android 远程代码执行 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12451 Chrome<149.0.7827.155数字凭证释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12449 Chrome<149.0.7827.155 Chomoting堆使用后释放提权漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12445 Chrome<149.0.7827.155越界释放漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12442 Google Chrome Android 多个版本 Use After Free 远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12443 Chrome <149.0.7827.155 Web认证Use After Free漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12441 Chrome 149.0.7827.155前存在UAF漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12440 Chrome Windows版数字证书UAF漏洞,影响149.0.7827.155前版本 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12439 Chrome <149.0.7827.155 数字证书释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-12437 Chrome 149.0.7827.155前Use-after-free漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-17
CVE-2026-10640 Use-after-free reading `net_pkt` `iface` after send in IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (`ipv6_nbr.c`) — zephyr 4.2 Medium2026-06-16
CVE-2026-10639 Use-after-free reading `net_pkt_iface()` of a sent ICMPv4 echo-reply packet in `icmpv4_handle_echo_request()` — zephyr 4.8 Medium2026-06-16
CVE-2026-10638 Use-after-free in Zephyr ICMPv6 RX path when updating statistics after sending an echo reply or error — zephyr 5.9 Medium2026-06-16
CVE-2026-10637 Use-after-free of net_pkt in IPv6 MLD send path triggerable by a link-local MLD Query — zephyr 5.9 Medium2026-06-16
CVE-2026-10636 Use-after-free in Zephyr IPv4 IGMP send path (igmp_send) — zephyr 3.7 Low2026-06-16
CVE-2026-10635 Dangling memory-domain pointer (use-after-free) in Xtensa MMU page-table code on memory-domain de-init — zephyr 6.3 Medium2026-06-16
CVE-2026-6040 Heap use-after-free in ODF number-format blank-width parsing — LibreOffice--2026-06-15
CVE-2026-10634 Use-after-free in Zephyr native TCP net_tcp_foreach() due to dropping tcp_lock during the callback — zephyr 4.8 Medium2026-06-15
CVE-2026-41158 GPU DDK - Backed sparse PMRs are not handled by deferred free mechanism after shrink — Graphics DDK--2026-06-12
CVE-2026-12035 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-11
CVE-2026-12029 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-11
CVE-2026-12028 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-11
CVE-2026-12020 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-11
CVE-2026-12023 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-11
CVE-2026-12015 Google Chrome 资源管理错误漏洞 — Chrome--2026-06-11

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-416 (释放后使用) represent 2828 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.