Weakness (CWE)
CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Implementation
Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.
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Architecture and Design
Use an abstraction library to abstract away risky APIs. Not a complete solution.
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Architecture and Design, Build and Compilation
Consider using the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector (bdwgc), which can help avoid leaks.
Source: MITRE CWE-401
788 results · Feed
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Medium 5.8
Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic File Processing Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the memory management implementation of Snort 3 that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection…
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Medium 5.7
Bluetooth Classic HFP Hands-Free: TX buffer leak on RFCOMM disconnect leads to permanent Bluetooth denial of service
The Bluetooth Classic Hands-Free Profile HF role in subsys/bluetooth/host/classic/hfp_hf.c does not release the AT command buffers that are still queued on hf->tx_pending when the RFCOMM DLC goes down. hfp_hf_disconnected() only cancelled the work items and c…
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Critical 9.1
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.80 for Perl leak the decoded arguments of a tagged value when its THAW method dies in decode_tag
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.80 for Perl leak the decoded arguments of a tagged value when its THAW method dies in decode_tag. With allow_tags, a tagged value's class name and argument array are decoded and passed to the class's THAW method. Both are re…
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High 8.1
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 3.0202 before 4.80 for Perl leak memory and retain overloaded objects when encoding values as strings in encode_stringify
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 3.0202 before 4.80 for Perl leak memory and retain overloaded objects when encoding values as strings in encode_stringify. encode_stringify writes a value in its string form under allow_stringify, under convert_blessed for objec…
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High 7.5
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 4.28 before 4.80 for Perl leak the array collecting duplicate key values under dupkeys_as_arrayref in decode_hv
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 4.28 before 4.80 for Perl leak the array collecting duplicate key values under dupkeys_as_arrayref in decode_hv. With dupkeys_as_arrayref, the values of a duplicate object key are collected into a new array. An extra reference i…
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High 7.5
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.80 for Perl leak the decoded key of an object rejected for a duplicate key or a missing colon in decode_hv
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.80 for Perl leak the decoded key of an object rejected for a duplicate key or a missing colon in decode_hv. A quoted key of 24 or more bytes, or one containing a non-ASCII byte or an escape sequence, is decoded into a new sc…
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Medium 6.5
Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl leak the parsed fields of a record that fails to parse in getline
Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl leak the parsed fields of a record that fails to parse in getline. getline collects the fields of a record into a new array and returns a reference to it only when the parse succeeds. When the record has a syntax err…
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Medium 5.3
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An EVPN-VXLAN memory leak causes denial of service when active-active multihoming is used
An Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference vulnerability in the l2ald process of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved on QFX5K-family platforms allows a configured EVPN peer to cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion vi…
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Medium 6.5
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An attacker causes l2cpd memory exhaustion when LLDP fast receive processing is enabled
An Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference vulnerability in the l2cpd process of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause l2cpd memory exhaustion and Layer 2 control-plane …
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Medium 6.5
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Unintended l2ald memory allocation causes a denial of service when static MAC IP configurations are present
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the l2ald process of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted packets when the static MAC-IP featu…
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High 7.5
Junos OS: SRX4000 Series, SRX5000 Series and MX Series with SPC3: With application services configured, high session churn causes memory leak which will ultimately impact traffic
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a complete Denial-of-Service (DoS). On SRX4000 Serie…
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Medium 5.3
NGINX ngx_http_js_module vulnerability
Description NGINX JavaScript (njs) has a vulnerability where the built-in njs engine leaks a libxml2 parser context when xml.parse() fails. The failure path did not register cleanup and the context was not released for the lifetime of the process. An unauthen…
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High 7.5
Windows DHCP Client Denial of Service Vulnerability
Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Windows DHCP Client allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
Windows DNS Denial of Service Vulnerability
Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Windows DNS allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Remote Desktop Gateway Service allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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Low 3.7
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Memory Leak in Wavelet-Denoise Operation
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the wavelet-denoise operation, which fails to release allocated memory when a required resource cannot be acquired. Attackers can repeatedly trigger wavelet-denoise processing unde…
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Low 3.3
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-32 Memory Leak via -process Option
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak vulnerability in the -process option that allows attackers to cause unreleased memory allocations by supplying certain arguments. Attackers can repeatedly invoke the -process option with crafted arguments to …
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Low 3.7
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Memory Leak in YUV Encoder
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the YUV encoder, which fails to release allocated memory when a specific operation fails. Attackers can supply crafted input that triggers the failing encoder operation, leaking me…
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Medium 5.3
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Memory Leak in SVG Encoder
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the SVG encoder (WriteSVGImage) that fails to release allocated memory when handling crafted images. Attackers can supply crafted image files that are processed by the SVG encoder …
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Low 3.7
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Memory Leak in GIF Encoder
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the GIF encoder because allocated memory is not released when color quantization fails during encoding. Attackers can supply images whose GIF conversion causes quantization to fail…
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Low 3.7
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 Memory Leak in PNG Encoder
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the PNG encoder, which does not release allocated memory when libpng initialization fails. Attackers who can repeatedly trigger PNG encoding operations in which libpng initializati…
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Medium 6.5
Bluetooth LE Controller: retained RX node leak and reachable assertion in the PHY Update procedure
The Link Layer Control Procedure (LLCP) implementation of the Zephyr software Bluetooth LE Controller retains the receive node that carried an accepted LL_PHY_UPDATE_IND so that it can later be reused for the host notification when the update instant is reach…
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Medium 6.5
Bluetooth LE controller leaks a retained RX node when an unexpected LL Control PDU arrives during a Connection Update
The Bluetooth Link Layer control procedure code in subsys/bluetooth/controller/ll_sw/ull_llcp_conn_upd.c retains the received RX node while a Connection Update / Connection Parameter procedure waits for its instant, so the node can later carry the host notifi…
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Medium 6.5
Retained RX node leak and reachable assertion in Bluetooth Controller CIS Create procedures
The Bluetooth Link Layer Control Procedure (LLCP) implementation for Connected Isochronous Stream (CIS) creation retains an RX node (ctx->node_ref.rx, marked NODE_RX_TYPE_RETAIN) so it can later be reused as the host notification — on the peripheral while awa…
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Medium 5.3
Quarkus LangChain4j 1.9.0 through 1.14.1 Memory Exhaustion via /_chat/routes WebSocket
Quarkus LangChain4j 1.9.0 through 1.14.1 contains a missing release of memory vulnerability in the chat-scopes WebSocket /_chat/routes endpoint that allows unauthenticated remote clients to exhaust server memory. Attackers can send repeated CONNECT frames reu…
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Medium 5.3
Multidict: Reference leak in CIMultiDict/MultiDict items-view union and subtraction
Multidict is an implementation of a multidict data structure. From 6.7.0 until 6.9.1, the C extension's items-view reflected union operation, operand | d.items(), in multidict_itemsview_or2_impl and subtraction operation, d.items() - operand, in multidict_ite…
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Medium 6.3
Apache Thrift: C++ `TEvhttpServer` leaks its `RequestContext` when the processor throws before calling back
Missing release of memory after effective lifetime vulnerability in Apache Thrift c++ bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.7
Apache Thrift: C++ `THeaderTransport::untransform()` leaks the zlib stream on the error path
Missing release of memory after effective lifetime, Missing release of resource after effective lifetime vulnerability in Apache Thrift THeaderTransport. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, whic…
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Medium 5.5
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where an unprivileged user could …
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High 8.7
A malformed Session header permanently orphans one packet-pool block per RTSP request
In Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo versions up to and including 6.5.2.202603, the RTSP server returns a raw parser error for a malformed Session header and never releases the response packet it allocated. An unauthenticated client can drain the server's packet pool …
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High 8.2
The NetX Duo MQTT client leaks the packet carrying a malformed PUBLISH message. Each malformed PUBLISH costs one packet…
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Medium 5.5
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Wireshark
IEEE C37.118 Synchrophasor protocol dissector memory leak in 4.6.0 to 4.6.8 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
VxWorks 7 Memory allocation
In Wind River VxWorks 7 prior to 26.09, specific system call arguments can result in the process management subsystem failing to properly release allocated kernel memory before terminating the calling application. Fixed in Version 26.09
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Medium 5.5
VxWorks Memory Allocation
Wind River VxWorks 7 24.03 through 26.03, a memory leak occurs under specific, non-default configuration states when processing specific service routines, causing the system to terminate operations before releasing allocated memory pools. Fixed in VxWorks 7 2…
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Medium 6.5
Mini-XML 4.0.5 contains a memory leak vulnerability in mxml_load_data() during malformed XML parsing. Specially crafted…
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Critical 9.1
Net::IDN::Punycode versions from 2.302 before 2.590 for Perl leak the output buffer on every rejected label in decode_punycode
Net::IDN::Punycode versions from 2.302 before 2.590 for Perl leak the output buffer on every rejected label in decode_punycode. The XS backend allocates the scalar it returns before it validates the input, sizing the buffer at twice the input length. The scal…
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High 7.5
vLLM through 0.29.0 GPU KV Cache Leak via Mooncake Transfer ID Collision
vLLM Mooncake connector through 0.29.0 fails to properly manage GPU KV cache block ownership when concurrent child requests share a single transfer ID in prefill/decode disaggregated deployments. Attackers can trigger GPU memory exhaustion by submitting compl…
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High 7.5
Envoy: HTTP/2 Discarded Host Header 200 GB Header-Copy OOM in Envoy
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Prior to 1.36.10, 1.37.6, 1.38.4, and 1.39.1, Envoy copies every decoded HTTP/2 Host header value before discarding it when :authority is already present. The discarded val…
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High 7.5
Suricata app-layer: passed flows can retain transactions, causing resource exhaustion
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, AppLayerParserSetTransactionInspectId() in src/app-layer-parser.c uses an inverted guard and marks only already-inspe…
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Medium 5.9
Suricata smb: some SMB flows can cause resource exhaustion
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the SMB parser can retain force-completed transactions on flows where Suricata sees payload in only one direction,…