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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-83912 Windows Direct Composition Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83741 Internet Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83769 Microsoft OpenSSH for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83886 Windows Update Orchestrator Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 23H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-70151 Windows Direct Composition Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-70086 Microsoft Windows Search Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-70241 Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83901 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83876 Windows Shell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83866 Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83853 Windows Hello Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83846 Connected Devices Platform Service (Cdpsvc) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83862 Windows Network Load Balancing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 8.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83852 Windows Bind Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83834 Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83796 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 23H2 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83780 Windows CCFFilter Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 9.8 Critical 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83726 Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83738 Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83761 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83749 Windows Overlay Filter Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83740 Windows Hello Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83706 Windows NTFS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 6.7 Medium 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83722 Microsoft Local Security Authority (LSA) Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83707 Windows Event Tracing Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83700 Windows Now Playing Session Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83687 Windows Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 23H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83675 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83690 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-83575 Windows Search Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13

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.