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Use After Free

CVE-2017-1000172

High
9.8/10

Summary

Creolabs Gravity Version: 1.0 Use-After-Free Possible code execution. An example of a Heap-Use-After-Free after the 'sublexer' pointer has been freed. Line 542 of gravity_lexer.c. 'lexer' is being used to access a variable but 'lexer' has already been freed, creating a Heap Use-After-Free condition.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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