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use-after-free

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A memory bug where a program keeps using a chunk of memory after it has been released, often leading to crashes or exploits.

A memory-safety vulnerability in which a pointer is dereferenced after the underlying heap allocation has been freed, frequently producing exploitable conditions in C/C++ systems.

Also called: use-after-frees

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