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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-110170 Chrome < 155.0.8059.79绑定使用-after-free远程内存读取 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110162 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 沙盒内远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110151 Chrome<155.0.8059.79 媒体模块Use-After-Free漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110148 Chrome<155.0.8059.79 SVG Use-After-Free致代码执行 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110149 Chrome<155.0.8059.79远程代码执行漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110161 Chrome<155.0.8059.79 网络Use-After-Free致代码执行 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110165 Android Chrome <155.0.8059.79 内存使用后释放漏洞 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-110136 Chrome <155.0.8059.79 PDF UAF漏洞致远程代码执行 — Chrome - - 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-85876 Microsoft SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (GDR) 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-103843 Substance3D - Stager | Use After Free (CWE-416) — Adobe Substance 3D Stager 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-108134 Windows Autopilot Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-108136 Microsoft Windows Search Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-97806 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-97807 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-97809 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-97808 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-97816 Microsoft OpenSSH for Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 9.8 Critical 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-105006 HID Class Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 6.4 Medium 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-105010 Microsoft Windows Search Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 9.8 Critical 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-103565 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-103554 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-103575 Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 8.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102214 Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 8.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102220 Windows VHD miniport driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102208 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102211 Windows Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) Enclave Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102201 Microsoft Windows Media Foundation Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102195 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 23H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102196 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-102197 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 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.