Weakness (CWE)
CWE-416: Use After Free
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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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 7.5
MessagePack: Out-of-bounds read/crash on Unpacker reuse after caught error
MessagePack is the serializer implementation for Python msgpack.org. Prior to 1.2.1, there is an Out-of-bounds read/crash on Unpacker reuse after a caught error, potentially leading to a DoS attack. If the Unpacker is used repeatedly after an error occurs, th…
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High 8.8
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.5.2, iOS 18.7.10…
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High 8.8
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.5.2, iOS 26.5.2 …
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High 7.4
Use-after-return in `zsock_getaddrinfo()` when a timed-out DNS query is retried without cancellation
Zephyr's BSD-sockets getaddrinfo() implementation (subsys/net/lib/sockets/getaddrinfo.c) passes a pointer to a stack-allocated state object (struct getaddrinfo_state ai_state) as the user_data of an asynchronous DNS resolver query. The socket layer waits on a…
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High 7.8
Use-after-free bug in the IPV6_MSFILTER socket option handler
The kernel handler for IPV6_MSFILTER dropped a serializing lock in order to copy the source-filter list from userspace, then reacquired the lock. During this window another thread could free the multicast filter structure, leaving the handler with a stale poi…
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High 7.0CVE-2026-49417 Public exploit
Multiple vulnerabilities in the sound(4) mmap path
Second, the audio buffer backing a mapping could be freed when the device was closed even though the mapping remained valid. The freed memory could then be reused elsewhere while still accessible through the stale mapping. The /dev/dsp device nodes are world-…
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High 7.8
drm/xe/eustall: Fix drm_dev_put called before stream disable in close
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/eustall: Fix drm_dev_put called before stream disable in close In xe_eu_stall_stream_close(), drm_dev_put() is called before the stream is disabled and its resources are freed. If this…
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High 7.5
Use after free in AdFilter in Google Chrome on Android prior to 149.0.7827.201 allowed a remote attacker who convinced …
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High 8.4
Use after free in AzeoTech DAQFactory
In AzeoTech DAQFactory versions 21.1 and prior, a Use After Free vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker using specially crafted .ctl files which can result in code execution.
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High 8.8
ipv6: mcast: Fix use-after-free when processing MLD queries
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: Fix use-after-free when processing MLD queries When processing an MLD query, a pointer to the multicast group address is retrieved when initially parsing the packet. This pointer…
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High 7.8
tee: optee: prevent use-after-free when the client exits before the supplicant
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: optee: prevent use-after-free when the client exits before the supplicant Commit 70b0d6b0a199 ("tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop") made the client wait as killable so it can be inter…
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High 7.8
ipvs: clear the svc scheduler ptr early on edit
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: clear the svc scheduler ptr early on edit ip_vs_edit_service() while unbinding the old scheduler clears the svc->scheduler ptr after the scheduler module initiates RCU callbacks. This c…
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High 7.8CVE-2026-53264 Public exploit
net/sched: act_api: use RCU with deferred freeing for action lifecycle
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_api: use RCU with deferred freeing for action lifecycle When NEWTFILTER and DELFILTER are run concurrently it is possible to create a race with an associated action. Let's illu…
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High 7.8
l2tp: pppol2tp: hold reference to session in pppol2tp_ioctl()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: l2tp: pppol2tp: hold reference to session in pppol2tp_ioctl() pppol2tp_ioctl() read sock->sk->sk_user_data directly without any locks or reference counting. If a controllable sleep was induce…
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High 8.0
Bluetooth: RFCOMM: hold listener socket in rfcomm_connect_ind()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: RFCOMM: hold listener socket in rfcomm_connect_ind() rfcomm_get_sock_by_channel() scans rfcomm_sk_list under the list lock, but returns the selected listener after dropping that lo…
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High 8.8
net: phy: clean the sfp upstream if phy probing fails
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: clean the sfp upstream if phy probing fails Sashiko reported that we don't call sfp_bus_del_upstream() in the probe failure path, so let's add it, otherwise the sfp-bus is left with…
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High 7.8
netfilter: nft_tunnel: fix use-after-free on object destroy
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_tunnel: fix use-after-free on object destroy nft_tunnel_obj_destroy() calls metadata_dst_free() which directly kfree()s the metadata_dst, ignoring the dst_entry refcount. Packe…
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High 7.8
ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing When snd_timer object is freed via snd_timer_free() and still pending snd_timer_instance objects are assigned to the timer object, it tr…
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High 7.8
mm/huge_memory: update file PMD counter before folio_put()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: update file PMD counter before folio_put() __split_huge_pmd_locked() updates the file/shmem RSS counter after dropping the PMD mapping's folio reference. If folio_put() drops …
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High 8.7
Denial of DNS over TLS service by any DoT client
NSD from version 4.13.0 has a heap use-after-free bug in logging errors on TLS connections, causing a crash of the server process, which can be triggered trivially by sending a DNS query over a DoT connection, and closing the connection without reading the re…
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High 7.4
sys/kern/sysv_sem.c in OpenBSD through 7.9 has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root. This is a …
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High 7.8
A use-after-free in the gf_sei_load_from_state_internal function (/filters/sei_load.c) of GPAC Project/MP4Box before 26…
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High 7.8
Use after free in WebView in Google Chrome on Android prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed a local attacker to execute arbit…
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High 8.8
Use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in…
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High 8.8
Use after free in Bluetooth in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitr…
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High 8.8
Use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in…
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High 7.5
Use after free in Web Authentication in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed an attacker who convinced a user …
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High 8.8
Use after free in Digital Credentials in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed a remote attacker to pote…
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High 8.8
Use after free in FileSystem in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit …
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High 8.8
Use after free in Autofill in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.197 allowed a remote attacker to execute arb…
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High 7.8
bpf: Fix stale offload->prog pointer after constant blinding
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix stale offload->prog pointer after constant blinding When a dev-bound-only BPF program (BPF_F_XDP_DEV_BOUND_ONLY) undergoes JIT compilation with constant blinding enabled (bpf_jit_har…
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High 8.8
Bluetooth: l2cap: Add missing chan lock in l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: l2cap: Add missing chan lock in l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp() calls l2cap_chan_del() without holding l2cap_chan_lock(). Every other l2cap_chan_del() caller in the…
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High 7.8
net/sched: taprio: fix use-after-free in advance_sched() on schedule switch
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: taprio: fix use-after-free in advance_sched() on schedule switch In advance_sched(), when should_change_schedules() returns true, switch_schedules() is called to promote the admin …
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High 7.8
ice: fix double-free of tx_buf skb
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix double-free of tx_buf skb If ice_tso() or ice_tx_csum() fail, the error path in ice_xmit_frame_ring() frees the skb, but the 'first' tx_buf still points to it and is marked as valid …
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High 7.8
af_unix: Drop all SCM attributes for SOCKMAP.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Drop all SCM attributes for SOCKMAP. SOCKMAP can hide inflight fd from AF_UNIX GC. When a socket in SOCKMAP receives skb with inflight fd, sk_psock_verdict_data_ready() looks up the …
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High 7.8CVE-2026-52943 Public exploit
net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers pskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() both copy the old skb_shared_info header into a new buffer via m…
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High 7.1
sctp: diag: reject stale associations in dump_one path
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: diag: reject stale associations in dump_one path The SCTP exact sock_diag lookup can hold a transport reference, block on lock_sock(sk), and then resume after sctp_association_free() ha…
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High 7.8
netfilter: nf_queue: hold bridge skb->dev while queued
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_queue: hold bridge skb->dev while queued br_pass_frame_up() rewrites skb->dev from the ingress port to the bridge master before queueing bridge LOCAL_IN packets. NFQUEUE only ho…
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High 7.5
A use-after-free in the gf_filter_pid_inst_swap_delete_task function (/filter_core/filter_pid.c) of GPAC Project/MP4Box…
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High 7.0
libxml2: Use after free in xmlParseInternalSubset via improper entity resolution handling
Use After Free in libxml2's xmlParseInternalSubset from GNOME libxml2 version 2.9.11 to 2.11.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via maliciously crafted XML input with improper entity resolution handling.