use-after-free
"Use-after-free" is a software vulnerability that refers to a situation where a computer program tries to access or use a memory location that has already been deallocated or freed, leading to potential crashes, security breaches, or unintended behavior.
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Related Concepts (17)
- access violation errors
- buffer overflow
- code exploitation
- dangling pointers
- data leakage
- exploitable programming errors
- heap overflow
- memory corruption
- memory corruption vulnerabilities
- memory safety issues
- null pointer dereference
- run-time errors
- security vulnerabilities
- software bugs
- software vulnerabilities
- undefined behavior
- violation of memory safety
Similar Concepts
- heap-based buffer overflow
- illegal memory access
- invalid memory access
- memory allocation vulnerabilities
- memory leak vulnerabilities
- memory leaks
- memory leaks and dangling pointers
- memory overflow
- out of memory error
- segmentation fault
- stack-based buffer overflow
- uninitialized memory vulnerabilities
- use-after-free vulnerabilities
- use-after-free vulnerabilities in the kernel
- use-after-free vulnerability