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use-after-free: a standalone construct

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Computer security

a memory error in which a program uses a pointer to memory already freed, which attackers can exploit to hijack execution.

In computer security, use-after-free refers to a memory error in which a program uses a pointer to memory already freed, which attackers can exploit to hijack execution. This meaning comes from Caballero (2012) in Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.[1]

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References

Caballero, J., Grieco, G., Marron, M., & Nappa, A. (2012). Undangle: early detection of dangling pointers in use-after-free and double-free vulnerabilities. Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1145/2338965.2336769

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