Refers to a memory corruption vulnerability that occurs when a pointer continues to point to a memory location after it has been freed (deallocated or released).

Remediation:

• When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed.
• However, multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.

Metadata

• Severity: medium
• Slug: dangling-pointer

CWEs

• 416: Use After Free