Nama: Expired Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that contains a location for memory that was previously valid, but is no longer valid.

Informasi Umum

Detail Latar Belakang

Mode Pengenalan

Implementation

Platform yang Berlaku

Bahasa

Kelas: Memory-Unsafe (Undetermined)
Nama: C (Undetermined)
Nama: C++ (Undetermined)

Konsekuensi Umum

Cakupan	Dampak	Kemungkinan
Confidentiality	Read Memory Catatan: If the expired pointer is used in a read operation, an attacker might be able to control data read in by the application.
Availability	DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart Catatan: If the expired pointer references a memory location that is not accessible to the product, or points to a location that is "malformed" (such as NULL) or larger than expected by a read or write operation, then a crash may occur.
Integrity Confidentiality Availability	Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands Catatan: If the expired pointer is used in a function call, or points to unexpected data in a write operation, then code execution may be possible.

Contoh yang Diamati

Referensi	Deskripsi
CVE-2023-26463	Chain: IPSec VPN product uses the same variable for multiple purposes in the same function (CWE-1109), leading to incorrect access control (CWE-284) and expired pointer dereference (CWE-825)
CVE-2008-5013	access of expired memory address leads to arbitrary code execution
CVE-2010-3257	stale pointer issue leads to denial of service and possibly other consequences
CVE-2008-0062	Chain: a message having an unknown message type may cause a reference to uninitialized memory resulting in a null pointer dereference (CWE-476) or dangling pointer (CWE-825), possibly crashing the system or causing heap corruption.
CVE-2007-1211	read of value at an offset into a structure after the offset is no longer valid

Mitigasi yang Memungkinkan

Phases : Architecture and Design
Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
Phases : Implementation
When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.

Metode Deteksi

Automated Static Analysis

Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)

Automated Dynamic Analysis

Use tools that are integrated during compilation to insert runtime error-checking mechanisms related to memory safety errors, such as AddressSanitizer (ASan) for C/C++ [REF-1518].
Efektivitas : Moderate

Catatan Pemetaan Kerentanan

Justifikasi : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Komentar : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Catatan

There are close relationships between incorrect pointer dereferences and other weaknesses related to buffer operations. There may not be sufficient community agreement regarding these relationships. Further study is needed to determine when these relationships are chains, composites, perspective/layering, or other types of relationships. As of September 2010, most of the relationships are being captured as chains.
Many weaknesses related to pointer dereferences fall under the general term of "memory corruption" or "memory safety." As of September 2010, there is no commonly-used terminology that covers the lower-level variants.

Referensi

REF-1518

AddressSanitizer
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html

REF-1534

Automated Technical Debt Measure, Version 2
OMG.
https://www.omg.org/spec/ATDM2/1.0/PDF

Pengajuan

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Tanggal rilis	Version
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2010-09-22 +00:00	2010-09-27 +00:00	1.10

Modifikasi

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Komentar
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-27 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-05-11 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2013-02-21 +00:00	updated Alternate_Terms
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-02-24 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-08-20 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-12-10 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2021-03-15 +00:00	updated Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2022-04-28 +00:00	updated Research_Gaps
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-01-31 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Description
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-04-03 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-09-09 +00:00	updated Affected_Resources, Functional_Areas
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-12-11 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, Observed_Examples, References, Time_of_Introduction, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2026-10-28 +00:00	updated Background_Details, Description, References

Detail CWE-825

CWE-825