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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-110919 Chrome<155.0.8059.84 V8使用释放后漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-15
CVE-2026-110922 Chrome 155.0.8059.84前UAF漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-15
CVE-2026-108446 Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.8 High 2026-10-15
CVE-2026-108442 Microsoft Office Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.8 High 2026-10-15
CVE-2026-108438 Microsoft Office Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 6.5 Medium 2026-10-15
CVE-2026-86567 Dpdk: dpdk: vduse handler fails to invalidate vring pointers when iotlb is invalidated, leading to use-after-unmap — Fast Datapath for RHEL 10 8.8 High 2026-10-14
CVE-2026-101970 Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Specific PIM messages causes rpd crash when multiple-triggered-joins is used — Junos OS 6.5 Medium 2026-10-14
CVE-2026-102078 Junos OS: SRX Series: A high volume of DNS traffic over TCP can lead to a flowd crash — Junos OS 5.9 Medium 2026-10-14
CVE-2026-97205 NGINX ngx_http_core_module vulnerability — NGINX Plus 8.1 High 2026-10-14
CVE-2026-84471 OpenVPN 2.6.0-2.6.22/2.7.7内存泄漏漏洞 — OpenVPN 7.2 High 2026-10-14
CVE-2026-50215 Akamai GPA<7.4 WFP驱动UAF致系统崩溃 — Guardicore Platform Agent 4.4 Medium 2026-10-14
CVE-2026-50217 Akamai GPA UAF致系统崩溃 — Guardicore Platform Agent 4.7 Medium 2026-10-14
CVE-2026-94453 IKEv2 Use-After-Free bug when using IKE-over-TCP — libreswan 7.5 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110142 Chrome低于155.0.8059.79 Use-After-Free远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110167 Chrome<155.0.8059.79媒体组件Use After Free漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110154 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 Canvas Use-After-Free任意代码执行 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110147 Chrome < 155.0.8059.79 PDF释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110171 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 媒体Use after free远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110157 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 SVG 使用后释放漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110138 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 形状检测UAF漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110163 Chrome<155.0.8059.79 DOM使用释放后漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110139 Chrome多个版本Media Use-After-Free漏洞可远程执行代码 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110168 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 V8 Use-After-Free远程代码执行 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110164 Chrome低于155.0.8059.79存在Use-After-Free漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110172 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 媒体模块UAF漏洞致远程代码执行 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110169 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 V8释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110153 Google Chrome 多个版本 Media 内存使用错误漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110145 Google Chrome 155.0.8059.79 前 释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110137 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 WebRTC使用释放后漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110158 Chrome小于155.0.8059.79释放后使用漏洞 — Chrome - - 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.