Glossary
Use-After-Free
A memory-corruption vulnerability that occurs when a program continues to use a pointer after the memory it points to has been freed, which an attacker can exploit to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. It is a common root-cause class for browser and OS-kernel zero-days.
Recent coverage mentioning Use-After-Free
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CVE-2026-53413: Zoom Zero-Click RCE – Patch Now
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Pixel 9 0-Click Sandbox Escape: BigWave UAF to Kernel R/W
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