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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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
6,542 results · Feed
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High 8.8
Use after free in Chromoting in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.173 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary co…
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Medium —
Zoo Design Studio: Memory-corruption in memory handling of lib-kcl
A race condition in kcl-lib can result in a use-after-free when accessing environments concurrently. During Vec reallocation, the previous buffer containing Box pointers is freed and replaced. A concurrent get_env operation that has already loaded a pointer t…
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Medium 5.7
Libevent: Null Pointer Dereference in `evws_new_session`
Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.2.2-alpha, libevent can dereference invalid list pointers in ws.c when evws_new_session enters its error path after evhttp_start_ws_ succeeds but bufferevent_enable_locking_ fails. evws_connection_free see…
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High 7.8
GStreamer rtpsbcdepay Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
GStreamer rtpsbcdepay Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of GStreamer. Interaction with this library is required to exploit this vulnerability but …
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Medium 4.9
libexpat before 2.8.4 lacks handler call depth tracking with custom encoding callbacks. Thus, a use-after-free can occu…
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Medium 5.5
Use After Free in Wireshark
CMS protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
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High 7.4
Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to a use-after-free.
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High 8.4
Use-after-free in kqueue copy-on-fork
While the kernel was copying knotes during fork, a knote with a timer-based filter could fire and be enqueued on the kqueue's active list before the copy was complete. The copy routine did not account for this and could enqueue the new knote a second time, co…
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High 8.4
Use-after-free in TCP RACK stack option handler
The RACK setsockopt(2) handler drops the connection lock in order to copy option data from userspace, then reacquires the lock. After reacquiring, it verifies that the TCP stack had not been switched away, but did not reload its pointer to the stack's per-con…
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High 8.8
Use-after-free in device pager page list
When msync(MS_INVALIDATE) is called on a mapping of an unmanaged device object, the physical pages in the mapping range are marked invalid but remain in the pager's page list. A subsequent page fault will cause the fault handler to re-insert the page into the…
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High 8.8
Use after free in WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.169 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in…
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High 8.8
Use after free in Browser in Google Chrome on on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.169 allowed a remote attacker leveraging socia…
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High 8.8
Valkey: UAF in stream deserialization may lead to remote code execution
Valkey is a distributed key-value database. Prior to 7.2.14, 8.0.10, 8.1.9, 9.0.5, and 9.1.1, Valkey's RESTORE command accepts a malformed RDB stream payload that assigns one Pending Entry List NACK to multiple consumers during stream consumer-group deseriali…
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High 7.5
Valkey: TLS pending-data processing use-after-free may allow remote code execution
Valkey is a distributed key-value database. Prior to 7.2.14, 8.0.10, 8.1.9, 9.0.5, and 9.1.1, Valkey's tlsProcessPendingData function iterates pending_list while an authenticated client can trigger CLIENT KILL, causing connTLSClose to delete the iterator's ca…
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High 8.8
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: GC component
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: GC component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Race condition, use-after-free in the Layout: Text and Fonts component
Race condition, use-after-free in the Layout: Text and Fonts component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Medium 4.2
Race condition, use-after-free in the Graphics component
Race condition, use-after-free in the Graphics component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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High 8.8
Use-after-free in the Graphics: Canvas2D component
Use-after-free in the Graphics: Canvas2D component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-74943 Public exploit
Use-after-free in the Graphics: ImageLib component
Use-after-free in the Graphics: ImageLib component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Critical 9.8
Use-after-free in the DOM: Core & HTML component
Use-after-free in the DOM: Core & HTML component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Critical 9.8
Use-after-free in the Graphics: Text component
Use-after-free in the Graphics: Text component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 115.39, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-74936 Public exploit
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component
Use-after-free in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 154, Firefox ESR 140.14, Firefox ESR 153.1, Thunderbird 154, Thunderbird 140.14, and Thunderbird 153.1.
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Medium 5.4
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.6.1, iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.…
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Medium 4.3
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.5, iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.…
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Medium 6.5
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.6.1, iOS 18.7.10…
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Medium 4.3
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.6.1, iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-65343 Public exploit
A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6…
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Medium 6.5
A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.6.1, iOS 18.7.10…
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Low 3.3
UAF vulnerability in the time and time zone module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect av…
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Critical 9.3
scsi: xen: scsiback: Free unsubmitted command instead of double-putting it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: xen: scsiback: Free unsubmitted command instead of double-putting it scsiback_get_pend_req() obtains a command tag and returns a vscsibk_pend whose embedded se_cmd has only been memset …
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Critical 9.8
scsi: target: core: Fix iSCSI ISID use-after-free in REGISTER AND MOVE
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: core: Fix iSCSI ISID use-after-free in REGISTER AND MOVE core_scsi3_emulate_pro_register_and_move() maps the PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT parameter list with transport_kmap_data_sg() …
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High 7.8
fs/resctrl: Fix use-after-free during unmount
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/resctrl: Fix use-after-free during unmount During unmount or failure teardown all mon_data structures that contain monitoring event file private data are freed after which kernfs nodes are…
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High 7.8
net/mlx5e: macsec: fix use-after-free of metadata_dst on RX SC delete
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: macsec: fix use-after-free of metadata_dst on RX SC delete When an offloaded MACsec RX SC is deleted, macsec_del_rxsc_ctx() freed the per-SC metadata_dst with metadata_dst_free(), …
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Critical 9.8
locking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock() rt_spin_unlock() releases the RCU protection before unlocking the lock. That opens the door for the following UAF scenario: T1…
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High 8.8
Use-after-free freeing an armed dynamically-allocated k_timer in Zephyr userspace object disposal
Zephyr's dynamic kernel-object disposal path unref_check() in kernel/userspace/userspace.c frees an object's storage (k_free(dyn->data)) once its reference count reaches zero, after running a per-object-type cleanup. The cleanup switch handled only K_OBJ_MSGQ…
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Medium 5.8
Use-after-free in Zephyr delayable work-queue cancellation under SMP timing race
A use-after-free exists in the Zephyr second-generation work queue (kernel/work.c) in the handling of delayable work timeouts. When a delayable work item's timeout has been dequeued and its handler work_timeout() is in flight (blocked acquiring the work-queue…
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Low 3.1
Security vulnerabilities have been found in IBM Verify Identity Access and IBM Security Verify Access
IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 and IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.3 and IBM Verify Identity Access Container 11.0 through 11.0.3 and IBM Security Verify Access Container 10.0 through 10.0.9.2 Reverse Proxy in certain configurat…
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Medium 5.5
Binutils: binutils: multiple use-after-free in add_archive_element via lto plugin processing
Multiple Use-After-Free vulnerabilities were found in the add_archive_element function in ld/ldmain.c of the GNU linker (ld), a component of binutils. The root cause is that plugin_maybe_claim() in ld/plugin.c frees the original BFD object via bfd_close/_bfd_…
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High 7.8
btrfs: don't propagate EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING to split extent maps
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: don't propagate EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING to split extent maps When btrfs_drop_extent_map_range() splits an extent map, the new split maps inherit the original map's flags through a local 'f…
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High 8.8
Use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.137 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in…