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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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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-2026-96310 Windows USB Print Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-96254 Windows USB Print Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-96250 Windows USB Print Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 21H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-96249 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88144 Microsoft Office PowerPoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-85340 Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-70215 Microsoft Office PowerPoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 8.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88117 Windows DHCP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2012 8.1 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88120 Windows DHCP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2012 8.1 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88119 Windows DHCP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2012 8.1 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-70250 Windows DHCP Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows Server 2012 8.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-70160 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-69915 Windows NTFS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88139 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 Version 24H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88182 Microsoft Windows Search Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88141 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 11 version 23H2 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88127 Windows SMB Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88113 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88152 Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88121 Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 8.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88134 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88109 Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88105 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-88103 Windows Broadcast DVR User Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-87694 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-87704 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-87700 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-87715 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-87693 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.0 High 2026-10-13
CVE-2026-69798 Windows Wired AutoConfig Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1607 7.8 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.