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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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 HTML in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap c…
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High 8.8
Use after free in Translate in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary cod…
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High 7.5
Use after free in Views in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to enga…
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High 8.3
Use after free in Resources in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker who had compr…
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High 8.3
Use after free in GPU in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the render…
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High 8.3
Use after free in Views in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the rend…
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Critical 9.6
Use after free in WebGL in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially pe…
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High 8.3
Use after free in Skia in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker who had compromise…
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High 8.3
Use after free in WebGL in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker who had compromis…
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Critical 9.6
Use after free in Aura in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 151.0.7922.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perfo…
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Medium 5.3
MZ Automation libiec61850 URCB Revalidation reporting.c deleteDataSetValuesShadowBuffer use after free
A vulnerability was found in MZ Automation libiec61850 up to 1.6.1. The affected element is the function deleteDataSetValuesShadowBuffer of the file src/iec61850/server/mms_mapping/reporting.c of the component URCB Revalidation. The manipulation results in us…
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High 7.8
PDF File Parsing Vulnerabilities in Certain Autodesk Desktop Products
A maliciously crafted PDF file, when parsed through Autodesk Revit, can force a Use-After-Free vulnerability. A malicious actor can leverage this vulnerability to cause a crash, disclose sensitive data, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the current …
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High 8.1
llama.cpp b7492–b9060 Use-After-Free in Tokenization Endpoints
llama.cpp builds b7492 through the latest b9060 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in llama-server affecting six tokenization endpoints (/tokenize, /detokenize, /infill, /apply-template, /rerank, and /anthropic/count_tokens) that bypass the task queue an…
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High 8.1
llama.cpp b7492–b9060 Use-After-Free RCE via llama-server
llama.cpp builds b7492 through the latest b9060 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the vocab pointer of llama-server when the --sleep-idle-seconds feature is enabled, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Attackers can t…
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High 8.8
wifi: brcmfmac: drain bus_reset work on device removal
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: drain bus_reset work on device removal brcmf_fw_crashed() and the debugfs "reset" entry both schedule drvr->bus_reset, whose callback recovers drvr through container_of() and …
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High 7.3
Libkcapi: memory corruption via uncanceled aio requests on error in libkcapi's one-shot aio path
Memory Corruption via Uncanceled AIO Requests on Error: libkcapi's one-shot AIO path can return an error before all submitted IOCBs are drained, allowing later kernel writes into caller-owned output buffers.
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High 7.8
RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap rxe_mmap() removes a rxe_mmap_info struct from the pending_mmaps list and releases pending_lock while the struct's kref is still at 1: list_…
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High 7.8
bpf: tcp: fix double sock release on batch realloc
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: tcp: fix double sock release on batch realloc bpf_iter_tcp_batch() releases the current batch via bpf_iter_tcp_put_batch(), which drops the socket refs and rewrites each slot with the so…
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High 7.8
wifi: mac80211: tear down new links on vif update error path
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: tear down new links on vif update error path When ieee80211_vif_update_links() adds new links it allocates a link container for each and calls ieee80211_link_init() (which reg…
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High 7.5
In open62541 1.5.5, a server-side use-after-free exists in the local MonitoredItem callback path. The issue occurs when…
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Critical 9.8
In multiple functions of vpu_ioctl.c, there is a possible use after free due to a use after free. This could lead to re…
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Medium 5.3
o6 open62541 client_types_custom.c UA_Client_getRemoteDataTypes use after free
A vulnerability was determined in o6 open62541 ca356b088ada7dee824d1b4acd07c1ff07ce242b. Impacted is the function UA_Client_getRemoteDataTypes of the file examples/custom_datatype/client_types_custom.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to use after free. It …
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High 7.5CVE-2026-56848 Public exploit
A flaw in Node.js HTTP/2 handling allows `nghttp2_session_mem_send()` to be called re-entrantly while `nghttp2_session_…
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High 7.1
Use-after-free in Bluetooth host ATT TX completion on disconnect mid-transfer
The Bluetooth host ATT layer (subsys/bluetooth/host/att.c) associates each in-flight ATT TX buffer with its owning channel via the static tx_meta_data_storage[] array (data->att_chan = chan). When a buffer's last reference is dropped, its net-buf destroy call…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-64564 Public exploit
sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing sctp_process_asconf() caches the transport the ASCONF chunk is processed against in asconf->transport (== chunk->transport, se…
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High 7.8CVE-2026-64563 Public exploit
rhashtable: clear stale iter->p on table restart
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rhashtable: clear stale iter->p on table restart rhashtable_walk_start_check() has two restart paths when resuming a walk. When iter->walker.tbl is valid, it re-validates iter->p against the …
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High 8.8
KVM: nVMX: Hide shadow VMCS right after VMCLEAR
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nVMX: Hide shadow VMCS right after VMCLEAR free_nested() frees the shadow VMCS while vmcs01 still points to it. But because it is asynchronous with respect to loaded_vmcs_clear(), the vC…
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High 8.8
Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Use after free in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
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High 7.5
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Use after free in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
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High 7.1
AIOHTTP: Out-of-bounds heap read in C HTTP response parser error path (malformed chunked response)
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.3, an out-of-bounds heap read could occur in the C response parser while building an error message for a malformed response. An attacker controlled server, or possib…
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Medium 6.0
In display, there is a possible memory corruption due to use after free. This could lead to local escalation of privile…
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High 7.5
FreeRDP before 3.29.0 Use-After-Free via async message proxy
FreeRDP before 3.29.0 contains client-side heap use-after-free vulnerabilities in the async update message proxy for RAIL WINDOW_STATE_ORDER and NOTIFY_ICON_STATE_ORDER when AsyncUpdate is enabled. When a malicious or compromised RDP server sends crafted upda…
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High 7.5
FreeRDP before 3.29.0 Use-After-Free via WindowIcon async message
FreeRDP before 3.29.0 contains a client-side heap use-after-free in the async update message proxy for WINDOW_ICON_ORDER when AsyncUpdate is enabled (e.g. xfreerdp /async-update). In update_message_WindowIcon() a shallow CopyMemory() overwrites a freshly allo…
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High 7.6
Use-after-free of GATT subscribe params in Bluetooth host CCC-write response handler
The Zephyr Bluetooth GATT client CCC-write response handler gatt_write_ccc_rsp() in subsys/bluetooth/host/gatt.c invoked the application's params->subscribe() callback after it had already called params->notify(conn, params, NULL, 0). Per the public GATT API,…
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High 8.1
o6 Automation open62541 Use After Free
A heap use-after-free vulnerability in the TransferSubscriptions service in open62541 may allow an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code.
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Medium 6.0
A use-after-free in OpenVPN 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote authenticated peers to pote…
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Low 2.1
MessagePack::Buffer#clear Use-After-Free that Enables Cross-Buffer Disclosure
MessagePack for Ruby is an implementation of the MessagePack binary serialization format. Prior to 1.8.2, MessagePack::Buffer#clear in ext/msgpack/buffer.c leaves rmem_last, rmem_end, and rmem_owner stale after _msgpack_buffer_shift_chunk returns an rmem page…
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Medium 6.0
An incomplete guard in OpenVPN 2.6.0 through 2.6.20 and 2.7_alpha1 through 2.7.4 allows remote authenticated peers to t…
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High 8.8
Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code insi…
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High 8.8
Use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in…