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CWE-416 (释放后使用) — Vulnerability Class 4332

4332 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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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)
Integrity Modify Memory
The use of previously freed memory may corrupt valid data, if the memory area in question has been allocated and used properly elsewhere.
Availability DoS: 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.
Confidentiality Read Memory
Read operations on freed memory can sometimes leak sensitive information instead of causing a crash
Integrity, Confidentiality, Availability Execute 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 Design Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
Implementation When 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 ID Title CVSS Severity Published
CVE-2026-79979 Stale TLB entries after demand-paging page-out let arm64 user threads access reused physical frames — zephyr 7.8 High 2026-10-23
CVE-2026-53918 odhcpd DHCPv6 IA dangling first pointer use-after-free — odhcpd 8.8 High 2026-10-23
CVE-2026-95620 Use-after-free vulnerability in QNetworkAccessManager HTTP/2 support impacts Qt — qt 2.1 Low 2026-10-23
CVE-2026-115379 Wasmtime 47.0.0 before 48.0.4 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.2 GC Heap Corruption via try_call — wasmtime 5.7 Medium 2026-10-22
CVE-2026-111804 Apache Traffic Server: wasm plugin has a use-after-free and forwards unvalidated guest metric IDs — Apache Traffic Server 8.2 High 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-109619 RCE via stale global state — PHP 9.2 Critical 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-109618 RCE via OOM corruption — PHP 9.2 Critical 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-84727 Apache bRPC: Use-After-Free in RTMP Chunk Stream Handling via Abort Message — Apache bRPC - - 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-74758 Apache bRPC: Heap Use-After-Free in RTMP Abort Message Handling — Apache bRPC - - 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-97206 DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) path-migration can lead to use-after-free on multi-threaded deployments. — Unbound 7.5 High 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-114111 Sharp before 0.35.5 RCE via librsvg Dependency Memory Vulnerability — sharp 8.9 High 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-114042 FreeRDP 3.32.0 Use-After-Free via drdynvc Virtual Channel PDU — FreeRDP 6.5 Medium 2026-10-21
CVE-2026-113039 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 书签 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113274 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 ReadingMode 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113227 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 编辑功能释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113130 Chrome 156 前 Actor 组件 UAF 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113074 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 之前 Media 模块 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113067 Chrome 156 之前 Chromoting 远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113314 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 之前版本 Media 模块存在 UAF 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113107 Chrome 156 前 Android 媒体 Use-After-Free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113287 Chrome 156 前 Prompts 模块释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113085 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Media 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113116 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 DevTools 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113156 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Android Messages 用后释漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113017 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Views 组件存在释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113140 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 ANGLE 释放后重用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113021 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 WebAppInstalls 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113080 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 WebAppInstalls 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113024 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 WebAppInstalls 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113025 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 之前 Input 模块 Use-After-Free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-416 (释放后使用) represent 4332 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.