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Safeguard articles tagged "use-after-free" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

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Application Security

The most common C++ vulnerability classes, and the tooling that catches them

Memory-safety bugs account for roughly 70% of high-severity CVEs in large C/C++ codebases at Microsoft and Google. Here's why, and what actually stops them.

Jul 11, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Management

What PHP's use-after-free bugs teach us about dynamic-runtime memory safety

Check Point disclosed three PHP 7 unserialize zero-days in 2016 alone. A decade of PHP use-after-free CVEs shows memory-safety risk doesn't end at the C/C++ boundary.

Jul 8, 20266 min read
Application Security

An introduction to C and C++ memory-safety vulnerabilities

Microsoft has reported that roughly 70% of the CVEs it patches each year trace back to memory-safety bugs — here's what buffer overflows, use-after-free, and double-free actually look like.

Jul 7, 20268 min read
Vulnerability Analysis

Use-after-free vulnerabilities explained

Use-after-free bugs (CWE-416) power some of the worst zero-day exploit chains in browsers and kernels. Here's how they work and what stops them.

Dec 11, 20257 min read
Security

CVE-2022-45146: Bouncy Castle FIPS Use-After-Free Explained

CVE-2022-45146 is a use-after-free issue in Bouncy Castle's FIPS Java API that surfaces on Java 13 and later. Here is who it affects and how to remediate.

May 27, 20255 min read
Security

What Is Memory Management? A Security-Focused Explainer

Memory management is how a program allocates and frees memory, and getting it wrong is the root of some of the most exploited vulnerability classes in software.

May 16, 20256 min read

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