Weakness (CWE)
CWE-416: Use After Free
Variant
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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
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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.
Source: MITRE CWE-416
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High 8.8
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbi…
KEV Mar 3, 2022 -
High 8.8
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary c…
KEV Mar 28, 2022 -
High 8.8
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary co…
KEV Jul 23, 2024 -
High 8.1
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CMshtmlEd::Exec function in mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 a…
KEV Jun 8, 2022 -
High 8.1
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary co…
KEV Oct 6, 2025 -
High 8.8
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Peer Objects component (aka iepeers.dll) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, a…
KEV May 20, 2026 -
High 8.8
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 on Windows 2000 SP4; Windows XP SP2 and …
KEV May 20, 2026 -
High 7.8
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before…
KEV Jun 8, 2022