| CVE |
Vendors |
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Updated |
CVSS v3.1 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/zcrypt: fix reference counting on zcrypt card objects
Tests with hot-plugging crytpo cards on KVM guests with debug
kernel build revealed an use after free for the load field of
the struct zcrypt_card. The reason was an incorrect reference
handling of the zcrypt card object which could lead to a free
of the zcrypt card object while it was still in use.
This is an example of the slab message:
kernel: 0x00000000885a7512-0x00000000885a7513 @offset=1298. First byte 0x68 instead of 0x6b
kernel: Allocated in zcrypt_card_alloc+0x36/0x70 [zcrypt] age=18046 cpu=3 pid=43
kernel: kmalloc_trace+0x3f2/0x470
kernel: zcrypt_card_alloc+0x36/0x70 [zcrypt]
kernel: zcrypt_cex4_card_probe+0x26/0x380 [zcrypt_cex4]
kernel: ap_device_probe+0x15c/0x290
kernel: really_probe+0xd2/0x468
kernel: driver_probe_device+0x40/0xf0
kernel: __device_attach_driver+0xc0/0x140
kernel: bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xd0
kernel: __device_attach+0x114/0x198
kernel: bus_probe_device+0xb4/0xc8
kernel: device_add+0x4d2/0x6e0
kernel: ap_scan_adapter+0x3d0/0x7c0
kernel: ap_scan_bus+0x5a/0x3b0
kernel: ap_scan_bus_wq_callback+0x40/0x60
kernel: process_one_work+0x26e/0x620
kernel: worker_thread+0x21c/0x440
kernel: Freed in zcrypt_card_put+0x54/0x80 [zcrypt] age=9024 cpu=3 pid=43
kernel: kfree+0x37e/0x418
kernel: zcrypt_card_put+0x54/0x80 [zcrypt]
kernel: ap_device_remove+0x4c/0xe0
kernel: device_release_driver_internal+0x1c4/0x270
kernel: bus_remove_device+0x100/0x188
kernel: device_del+0x164/0x3c0
kernel: device_unregister+0x30/0x90
kernel: ap_scan_adapter+0xc8/0x7c0
kernel: ap_scan_bus+0x5a/0x3b0
kernel: ap_scan_bus_wq_callback+0x40/0x60
kernel: process_one_work+0x26e/0x620
kernel: worker_thread+0x21c/0x440
kernel: kthread+0x150/0x168
kernel: __ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x58
kernel: ret_from_fork+0xa/0x30
kernel: Slab 0x00000372022169c0 objects=20 used=18 fp=0x00000000885a7c88 flags=0x3ffff00000000a00(workingset|slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
kernel: Object 0x00000000885a74b8 @offset=1208 fp=0x00000000885a7c88
kernel: Redzone 00000000885a74b0: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ........
kernel: Object 00000000885a74b8: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
kernel: Object 00000000885a74c8: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
kernel: Object 00000000885a74d8: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
kernel: Object 00000000885a74e8: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
kernel: Object 00000000885a74f8: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
kernel: Object 00000000885a7508: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 68 4b 6b 6b 6b a5 kkkkkkkkkkhKkkk.
kernel: Redzone 00000000885a7518: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ........
kernel: Padding 00000000885a756c: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 387 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.8.0-HF #2
kernel: Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 704 (KVM/Linux)
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: [<00000000ca5ab5b8>] dump_stack_lvl+0x90/0x120
kernel: [<00000000c99d78bc>] check_bytes_and_report+0x114/0x140
kernel: [<00000000c99d53cc>] check_object+0x334/0x3f8
kernel: [<00000000c99d820c>] alloc_debug_processing+0xc4/0x1f8
kernel: [<00000000c99d852e>] get_partial_node.part.0+0x1ee/0x3e0
kernel: [<00000000c99d94ec>] ___slab_alloc+0xaf4/0x13c8
kernel: [<00000000c99d9e38>] __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x78/0xb8
kernel: [<00000000c99dc8dc>] __kmalloc+0x434/0x590
kernel: [<00000000c9b4c0ce>] ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x4e/0x1c0
kernel: [<00000000c9b908a2>] htree_dirblock_to_tree+0x17a/0x3f0
kernel:
---truncated--- |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix potential UAF in cifs_debug_files_proc_show()
Skip sessions that are being teared down (status == SES_EXITING) to
avoid UAF. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btsdio: fix use after free bug in btsdio_remove due to race condition
In btsdio_probe, the data->work is bound with btsdio_work. It will be
started in btsdio_send_frame.
If the btsdio_remove runs with a unfinished work, there may be a race
condition that hdev is freed but used in btsdio_work. Fix it by
canceling the work before do cleanup in btsdio_remove. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix UAF during login when accessing the shost ipaddress
If during iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create() iscsi_tcp_r2tpool_alloc() fails,
userspace could be accessing the host's ipaddress attr. If we then free the
session via iscsi_session_teardown() while userspace is still accessing the
session we will hit a use after free bug.
Set the tcp_sw_host->session after we have completed session creation and
can no longer fail. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix potential deadlock when releasing mids
All release_mid() callers seem to hold a reference of @mid so there is
no need to call kref_put(&mid->refcount, __release_mid) under
@server->mid_lock spinlock. If they don't, then an use-after-free bug
would have occurred anyways.
By getting rid of such spinlock also fixes a potential deadlock as
shown below
CPU 0 CPU 1
------------------------------------------------------------------
cifs_demultiplex_thread() cifs_debug_data_proc_show()
release_mid()
spin_lock(&server->mid_lock);
spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock)
spin_lock(&server->mid_lock)
__release_mid()
smb2_find_smb_tcon()
spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock) *deadlock* |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix use-after-free bug in cifs_debug_data_proc_show()
Skip SMB sessions that are being teared down
(e.g. @ses->ses_status == SES_EXITING) in cifs_debug_data_proc_show()
to avoid use-after-free in @ses.
This fixes the following GPF when reading from /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData
while mounting and umounting
[ 816.251274] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical
address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6d81: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
...
[ 816.260138] Call Trace:
[ 816.260329] <TASK>
[ 816.260499] ? die_addr+0x36/0x90
[ 816.260762] ? exc_general_protection+0x1b3/0x410
[ 816.261126] ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30
[ 816.261502] ? cifs_debug_tcon+0xbd/0x240 [cifs]
[ 816.261878] ? cifs_debug_tcon+0xab/0x240 [cifs]
[ 816.262249] cifs_debug_data_proc_show+0x516/0xdb0 [cifs]
[ 816.262689] ? seq_read_iter+0x379/0x470
[ 816.262995] seq_read_iter+0x118/0x470
[ 816.263291] proc_reg_read_iter+0x53/0x90
[ 816.263596] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
[ 816.263945] vfs_read+0x201/0x350
[ 816.264211] ksys_read+0x75/0x100
[ 816.264472] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[ 816.264750] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[ 816.265135] RIP: 0033:0x7fd5e669d381 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix use-after-free in smb2_query_info_compound()
The following UAF was triggered when running fstests generic/072 with
KASAN enabled against Windows Server 2022 and mount options
'multichannel,max_channels=2,vers=3.1.1,mfsymlinks,noperm'
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in smb2_query_info_compound+0x423/0x6d0 [cifs]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888014941048 by task xfs_io/27534
CPU: 0 PID: 27534 Comm: xfs_io Not tainted 6.6.0-rc7 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x80
print_report+0xcf/0x650
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
? __phys_addr+0x46/0x90
kasan_report+0xda/0x110
? smb2_query_info_compound+0x423/0x6d0 [cifs]
? smb2_query_info_compound+0x423/0x6d0 [cifs]
smb2_query_info_compound+0x423/0x6d0 [cifs]
? __pfx_smb2_query_info_compound+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
? __stack_depot_save+0x39/0x480
? kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
? kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
? ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x170
smb2_queryfs+0xc2/0x2c0 [cifs]
? __pfx_smb2_queryfs+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? __pfx___lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
smb311_queryfs+0x210/0x220 [cifs]
? __pfx_smb311_queryfs+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
? __lock_acquire+0x480/0x26c0
? lock_release+0x1ed/0x640
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x9b/0x100
cifs_statfs+0x18c/0x4b0 [cifs]
statfs_by_dentry+0x9b/0xf0
fd_statfs+0x4e/0xb0
__do_sys_fstatfs+0x7f/0xe0
? __pfx___do_sys_fstatfs+0x10/0x10
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x136/0x200
? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0x7f
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
Allocated by task 27534:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
open_cached_dir+0x71b/0x1240 [cifs]
smb2_query_info_compound+0x5c3/0x6d0 [cifs]
smb2_queryfs+0xc2/0x2c0 [cifs]
smb311_queryfs+0x210/0x220 [cifs]
cifs_statfs+0x18c/0x4b0 [cifs]
statfs_by_dentry+0x9b/0xf0
fd_statfs+0x4e/0xb0
__do_sys_fstatfs+0x7f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
Freed by task 27534:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x50
____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x170
slab_free_freelist_hook+0xd0/0x1e0
__kmem_cache_free+0x9d/0x1b0
open_cached_dir+0xff5/0x1240 [cifs]
smb2_query_info_compound+0x5c3/0x6d0 [cifs]
smb2_queryfs+0xc2/0x2c0 [cifs]
This is a race between open_cached_dir() and cached_dir_lease_break()
where the cache entry for the open directory handle receives a lease
break while creating it. And before returning from open_cached_dir(),
we put the last reference of the new @cfid because of
!@cfid->has_lease.
Besides the UAF, while running xfstests a lot of missed lease breaks
have been noticed in tests that run several concurrent statfs(2) calls
on those cached fids
CIFS: VFS: \\w22-root1.gandalf.test No task to wake, unknown frame...
CIFS: VFS: \\w22-root1.gandalf.test Cmd: 18 Err: 0x0 Flags: 0x1...
CIFS: VFS: \\w22-root1.gandalf.test smb buf 00000000715bfe83 len 108
CIFS: VFS: Dump pending requests:
CIFS: VFS: \\w22-root1.gandalf.test No task to wake, unknown frame...
CIFS: VFS: \\w22-root1.gandalf.test Cmd: 18 Err: 0x0 Flags: 0x1...
CIFS: VFS: \\w22-root1.gandalf.test smb buf 000000005aa7316e len 108
...
To fix both, in open_cached_dir() ensure that @cfid->has_lease is set
right before sending out compounded request so that any potential
lease break will be get processed by demultiplex thread while we're
still caching @cfid. And, if open failed for some reason, re-check
@cfid->has_lease to decide whether or not put lease reference. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix uaf in jfs_evict_inode
When the execution of diMount(ipimap) fails, the object ipimap that has been
released may be accessed in diFreeSpecial(). Asynchronous ipimap release occurs
when rcu_core() calls jfs_free_node().
Therefore, when diMount(ipimap) fails, sbi->ipimap should not be initialized as
ipimap. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: powermate - fix use-after-free in powermate_config_complete
syzbot has found a use-after-free bug [1] in the powermate driver. This
happens when the device is disconnected, which leads to a memory free from
the powermate_device struct. When an asynchronous control message
completes after the kfree and its callback is invoked, the lock does not
exist anymore and hence the bug.
Use usb_kill_urb() on pm->config to cancel any in-progress requests upon
device disconnection.
[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0434ac83f907a1dbdd1e |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: xhci: Fix isochronous Ring Underrun/Overrun event handling
The TRB pointer of these events points at enqueue at the time of error
occurrence on xHCI 1.1+ HCs or it's NULL on older ones. By the time we
are handling the event, a new TD may be queued at this ring position.
I can trigger this race by rising interrupt moderation to increase IRQ
handling delay. Similar delay may occur naturally due to system load.
If this ever happens after a Missed Service Error, missed TDs will be
skipped and the new TD processed as if it matched the event. It could
be given back prematurely, risking data loss or buffer UAF by the xHC.
Don't complete TDs on xrun events and don't warn if queued TDs don't
match the event's TRB pointer, which can be NULL or a link/no-op TRB.
Don't warn if there are no queued TDs at all.
Now that it's safe, also handle xrun events if the skip flag is clear.
This ensures completion of any TD stuck in 'error mid TD' state right
before the xrun event, which could happen if a driver submits a finite
number of URBs to a buggy HC and then an error occurs on the last TD. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HSI: ssi_protocol: Fix use after free vulnerability in ssi_protocol Driver Due to Race Condition
In the ssi_protocol_probe() function, &ssi->work is bound with
ssip_xmit_work(), In ssip_pn_setup(), the ssip_pn_xmit() function
within the ssip_pn_ops structure is capable of starting the
work.
If we remove the module which will call ssi_protocol_remove()
to make a cleanup, it will free ssi through kfree(ssi),
while the work mentioned above will be used. The sequence
of operations that may lead to a UAF bug is as follows:
CPU0 CPU1
| ssip_xmit_work
ssi_protocol_remove |
kfree(ssi); |
| struct hsi_client *cl = ssi->cl;
| // use ssi
Fix it by ensuring that the work is canceled before proceeding
with the cleanup in ssi_protocol_remove(). |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: ignore xattrs past end
Once inside 'ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all' we should
ignore xattrs entries past the 'end' entry.
This fixes the following KASAN reported issue:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888012c120c4 by task repro/2065
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2065 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+ #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x1fd/0x300
? tcp_gro_dev_warn+0x260/0x260
? _printk+0xc0/0x100
? read_lock_is_recursive+0x10/0x10
? irq_work_queue+0x72/0xf0
? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0
print_address_description+0x78/0x390
print_report+0x107/0x1f0
? __virt_addr_valid+0x17b/0x4b0
? __virt_addr_valid+0x3ff/0x4b0
? __phys_addr+0xb5/0x160
? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90
kasan_report+0xcc/0x100
? ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90
ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0xb8c/0xe90
? ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xd30/0xd30
? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x5f0/0x5f0
? __ext4_journal_ensure_credits+0x2b/0x5f0
? inode_update_timestamps+0x410/0x410
ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb64/0xd30
? ext4_truncate+0xb70/0xdc0
? ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x1d20/0x1d20
? __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x670/0x670
? ext4_journal_check_start+0x16f/0x240
? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x2f2/0x3a0
ext4_evict_inode+0xc8c/0xff0
? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0
? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x53/0x8a0
? ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink+0x3a0/0x3a0
evict+0x4ac/0x950
? proc_nr_inodes+0x310/0x310
? trace_ext4_drop_inode+0xa2/0x220
? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x30
? iput+0x4cb/0x7e0
do_unlinkat+0x495/0x7c0
? try_break_deleg+0x120/0x120
? 0xffffffff81000000
? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x210
? strncpy_from_user+0x13e/0x250
? getname_flags+0x1dc/0x530
__x64_sys_unlinkat+0xc8/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x65/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0x6f
RIP: 0033:0x434ffd
Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8
RSP: 002b:00007ffc50fa7b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000107
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc50fa7e18 RCX: 0000000000434ffd
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000240 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007ffc50fa7be0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007ffc50fa7e08 R14: 00000000004bbf30 R15: 0000000000000001
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888012c12000
which belongs to the cache filp of size 360
The buggy address is located 196 bytes inside of
freed 360-byte region [ffff888012c12000, ffff888012c12168)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12c12
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x40(head|node=0|zone=0)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000040 ffff888000ad7640 ffffea0000497a00 dead000000000004
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000001 ffffea00004b0481 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888012c11f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff888012c12000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff888012c12080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888012c12100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc
ffff888012c12180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
---truncated--- |
| A maliciously crafted CATPART, STP, and MODEL file, when parsed in atf_dwg_consumer.dll, rose_x64_vc15.dll and libodxdll through Autodesk applications, can cause a use-after-free vulnerability. This vulnerability, along with other vulnerabilities, can lead to code execution in the current process. |
| A maliciously crafted SLDPRT file in ASMkern228A.dll when parsed through Autodesk applications can be used in user-after-free vulnerability. This vulnerability, along with other vulnerabilities, could lead to code execution in the current process. |
| A maliciously crafted IGS file in tbb.dll when parsed through Autodesk AutoCAD can be used in user-after-free vulnerability. This vulnerability, along with other vulnerabilities, could lead to code execution in the current process. |
| Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct improper GPU system calls to trigger reads of stale data that can lead to kernel exceptions and write use-after-free.
The Use After Free common weakness enumeration was chosen as the stale data can include handles to resources in which the reference counts can become unbalanced. This can lead to the premature destruction of a resource while in use. |
| Memory corruption while handling concurrent memory mapping and unmapping requests from a user-space application. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: SVM: Flush pages under kvm->lock to fix UAF in svm_register_enc_region()
Do the cache flush of converted pages in svm_register_enc_region() before
dropping kvm->lock to fix use-after-free issues where region and/or its
array of pages could be freed by a different task, e.g. if userspace has
__unregister_enc_region_locked() already queued up for the region.
Note, the "obvious" alternative of using local variables doesn't fully
resolve the bug, as region->pages is also dynamically allocated. I.e. the
region structure itself would be fine, but region->pages could be freed.
Flushing multiple pages under kvm->lock is unfortunate, but the entire
flow is a rare slow path, and the manual flush is only needed on CPUs that
lack coherency for encrypted memory. |
| A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the PDF file parsing of Foxit PDF Reader before 2025.2.1, 14.0.1, and 13.2.1 on Windows. A PDF object managed by multiple parent objects could be freed while still being referenced, potentially allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. |
| A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the annotation handling of Foxit PDF Reader before 2025.2.1, 14.0.1, and 13.2.1 on Windows and MacOS. When opening a PDF containing specially crafted JavaScript, a pointer to memory that has already been freed may be accessed or dereferenced, potentially allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. |
