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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-113158 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前流媒体 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113282 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 之前版本 Views 存在释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113001 Chrome 156 之前 Workers 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113123 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 GPU 使用后释放漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113204 Chrome 156 之前 TrustedWebActivities 远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113081 Chrome 156 之前合成模块的释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113041 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Actor 组件释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113202 Chrome 156 之前版本 BrowserTag 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113043 Chrome iOS 156 之前版本 iOSWeb 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113308 Chrome 156 前 Core 组件 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113073 Chrome 156 前版本浏览器 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113255 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 以下 Android CustomTabs 远程代码执行 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113076 Chrome Android 156 前 Toolbar 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113218 Chrome 156 前 DataTransfer 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113042 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 扩展程序 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113262 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 扩展 Use-After-Free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-112995 Chrome 156 之前版本 Animation 组件存在释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113190 Chrome 156 以下 ServiceWorker 使用释放后漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113261 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 之前 WebAppInstalls 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113071 Chrome Android 156 前通知功能 Use-After-Free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113278 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 扩展 Use After Free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113009 Chrome 156 之前版本 WindowControlsOverlay 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113115 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 之前版本存在 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113189 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Core 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113321 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Extensions 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113208 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 ContextualSearch 远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-112999 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 API Use after free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113112 Chrome 156 扩展 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113327 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Chromecast UAF 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113207 Chrome 156 之前 Android 版 SiteIsolation 释放后使用漏洞 — 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.