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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-113324 Chrome 156 前版本 GPU 使用后释放漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113210 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 ANGLE 远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113293 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 ANGLE 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113305 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前隐私模块释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113044 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 V8 Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113298 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Transactions 平台 Use after free — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113141 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前版事务平台 Use After Free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113236 Chrome iOS 156 之前版本导航使用释放漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113253 Chrome 156 之前 Canvas 存在 UAF 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113163 Chrome Android 156.0.8078.47 前 WebGL 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113339 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 之前 SVG Use After Free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113092 Chrome 156 前 Android 版密码使用释放后漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113119 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 Network Use-after-free 漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113058 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 WebUI 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113097 Chrome 156 之前 FileSystem 存在释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113271 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前版本无障碍功能释放后重用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-113101 Chrome 156.0.8078.47 前 SiteIsolation 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-94192 Module object deallocation can free a live ThreadX kernel object — Eclipse ThreadX 8.5 High 2026-10-20
CVE-2026-112261 Gimp: gimp: use-after-free in xcf loader via prop_selected_path — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 7.8 High 2026-10-19
CVE-2026-112258 Gimp: gimp: use-after-free in xcf loader via prop_linked and prop_selection on channels — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 7.8 High 2026-10-19
CVE-2026-112402 Pillow: Double free in ImagingScaleAffine on calloc failure via Image.transform — Pillow 8.7 High 2026-10-19
CVE-2026-112396 Pillow: Heap use-after-free when encoding TIFF to an in-memory buffer — Pillow 5.9 Medium 2026-10-19
CVE-2026-110686 Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.80 for Perl use freed filter callbacks when a filter removes itself during decoding in decode_hv - - 2026-10-19
CVE-2026-110681 Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.80 for Perl use the parent interpreter's scalars from a parser object cloned into a new ithread - - 2026-10-19
CVE-2026-112094 michaelrsweet mxml mxml-file.c mxml_load_data use after free — mxml 5.5 Medium 2026-10-19
CVE-2026-110753 Text::CSV_XS versions from 1.46 before 1.65 for Perl have a use-after-free of bind_columns variables when skip_empty_rows skips an empty line in getline - - 2026-10-16
CVE-2026-17591 Libarchive: libarchive: use-after-free via aliased mac metadata copy — Red Hat Hardened Images 3.6 Low 2026-10-16
CVE-2026-85748 MariaDB: Use-after-free with a large number of SYS_REFCURSOR's — server 9.9 Critical 2026-10-16
CVE-2026-110915 Chrome低于155.0.8059.84存在Use After Free漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-15
CVE-2026-110921 Chrome <155.0.8059.84 V8 UAF远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-15

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.