CWE-772— Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.— MITRE CWE catalog

528 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →

CVEs classified under CWE-772page 1 of 11

CVE-1999-1127HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
1999-12-31
Windows NT 4.0 does not properly shut down invalid named pipe RPC connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a series of connections containing malformed data, aka the "Named Pipes Ove…
CVE-2001-0830HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2001-12-06
6tunnel 0.08 and earlier does not properly close sockets that were initiated by a client, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by repeatedly connecting to and disconnecting from the server.
CVE-2003-0132MEDIUMCVSS v2 5.0EG 5.0
2003-04-11
A memory leak in Apache 2.0 through 2.0.44 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via large chunks of linefeed characters, which causes Apache to allocate 80 bytes for each linefeed.
CVE-2007-0897HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2007-02-16
Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 does not close open file descriptors under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and failed scans) via CAB archives with a cabinet head…
CVE-2007-4103HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2007-07-31
The IAX2 channel driver (chan_iax2) in Asterisk Open 1.2.x before 1.2.23, 1.4.x before 1.4.9, and Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit before 0.6.0, when configured to allow unauthenticated calls, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of s…
CVE-2008-2122HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2008-05-09
IBM Rational Build Forge 7.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a port scan, which spawns multiple bfagent server processes that attempt to read data from closed sockets.
CVE-2008-3799HIGHCVSS v2 7.8EG 7.8
2008-09-26
Memory leak in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) implementation in Cisco IOS 12.2 through 12.4, when VoIP is configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and voice-service outage) via unspecified…
CVE-2009-2903HIGHCVSS v2 7.1EG 7.1
2009-09-15
Memory leak in the appletalk subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x through 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x through 2.6.31, when the appletalk and ipddp modules are loaded but the ipddp"N" device is not found, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of …
CVE-2009-3519MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.9EG 4.9
2009-10-01
Multiple memory leaks in the IP module in the kernel in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_109, allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to (1) M_DATA, (2) M_PROTO, (3) M_PCP…
CVE-2009-5039MEDIUMCVSS v2 5.0EG 5.0
2011-01-07
Memory leak in the gk_circuit_info_do_in_acf function in the H.323 implementation in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls over a long duration, as …
CVE-2010-4657HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2019-11-13
PHP5 before 5.4.4 allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into the resulting output.
CVE-2010-4683HIGHCVSS v2 7.8EG 7.8
2011-01-07
Memory leak in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA5 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending a crafted SIP REGISTER message over UDP, aka Bug ID CSCtg41733.
CVE-2010-5321MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.3
2017-04-24
Memory leak in drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c in the videobuf subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.x through 4.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging /dev/video access for a series of mmap ca…
CVE-2011-1488MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.5
2019-11-14
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when $RepeatedMsgReduction was enabled. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of the rsyslogd daemon service by crashing t…
CVE-2011-1489MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.5
2019-11-14
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages were logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could cau…
CVE-2011-1490MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.5
2019-11-14
A memory leak in rsyslog before 5.7.6 was found in the way deamon processed log messages are logged when multiple rulesets were used and some output batches contained messages belonging to more than one ruleset. A local attacker could caus…
CVE-2011-2498MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.5
2020-02-20
The Linux kernel from v2.3.36 before v2.6.39 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering creation of PTE pages.
CVE-2011-4661HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2020-02-12
A memory leak vulnerability exists in Cisco IOS before 15.2(1)T due to a memory leak in the HTTP PROXY Server process (aka CSCtu52820), when configured with Cisco ISR Web Security with Cisco ScanSafe and User Authenticaiton NTLM configured.
CVE-2013-6707MEDIUMCVSS v2 4.3EG 4.3
2013-12-07
Memory leak in the connection-manager implementation in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.1(.3) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (multi-protocol management outage) by making multiple managem…
CVE-2015-7701HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2017-08-07
Memory leak in the CRYPTO_ASSOC function in ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
CVE-2015-8568MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2017-04-11
Memory leak in QEMU, when built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by trying to activate the vmxnet3 device repeatedly.
CVE-2015-8631MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2016-02-13
Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a request specifyin…
CVE-2016-0877HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2016-05-31
Memory leak on Moxa Secure Router EDR-G903 devices before 3.4.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by executing the ping function.
CVE-2016-7466MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-12-10
Memory leak in the usb_xhci_exit function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when the xhci uses msix, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by…
CVE-2016-7994MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-12-10
Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_R…
CVE-2016-7995MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-12-10
Memory leak in the ehci_process_itd function in hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted buffer page select (PG) ind…
CVE-2016-8577MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-11-04
Memory leak in the v9fs_read function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to an I/O read operation.
CVE-2016-9101MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-12-09
Memory leak in hw/net/eepro100.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging an i8255x (PRO100) NIC device.
CVE-2016-9102MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-12-09
Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate mess…
CVE-2016-9105MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-12-09
Memory leak in the v9fs_link function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a reference to the source fid object.
CVE-2016-9106MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0
2016-12-09
Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.
CVE-2016-9907MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2016-12-23
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB redirector usb-guest support is vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It could occur while destroying the USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest user/process could use this issue to lea…
CVE-2016-9911MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2016-12-23
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while processing packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest user/process could use this issue to leak host memory, re…
CVE-2016-9912MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2016-12-23
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while destroying gpu resource object in 'virtio_gpu_resource_destroy'. A guest user/process could use this flaw…
CVE-2017-0697MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.5
2017-07-06
A denial of service vulnerability in the Android media framework. Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2. Android ID: A-37239013.
CVE-2017-0719HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.8
2017-08-09
A remote code execution vulnerability in the Android media framework (mpeg2 decoder). Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2. Android ID: A-37273673.
CVE-2017-0726MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.5
2017-08-09
A denial of service vulnerability in the Android media framework (libstagefright). Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2. Android ID: A-36389123.
CVE-2017-0813HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2017-10-04
A denial of service vulnerability in the Android media framework (libstagefright). Product: Android. Versions: 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2. Android ID: A-36531046.
CVE-2017-0818HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2017-10-04
A vulnerability in the Android media framework (n/a). Product: Android. Versions: 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0. Android ID: A-63581671.
CVE-2017-0855HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2018-01-12
In MPEG4Extractor.cpp, there are several places where functions return early without cleaning up internal buffers which could lead to memory leaks. This could lead to remote denial of service of a critical system process with no additional…
CVE-2017-1000182MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.5
2017-11-17
In SWFTools, a memory leak was found in wav2swf.
CVE-2017-1000408HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.8
2018-02-01
A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.
CVE-2017-10810HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2017-07-04
Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_object_create function in drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering object-initialization failu…
CVE-2017-10980HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2017-07-17
An FR-GV-203 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows "DHCP - Memory leak in decode_tlv()" and a denial of service.
CVE-2017-10981HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5
2017-07-17
An FR-GV-204 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows "DHCP - Memory leak in fr_dhcp_decode()" and a denial of service.
CVE-2017-11141MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2017-07-10
The ReadMATImage function in coders\mat.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted MAT file, related to incorrect ordering of a SetImageExtent call.
CVE-2017-11166MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2017-07-10
The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted length (number of color-map entries) field in the header of an XWD file.
CVE-2017-11170HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.8
2017-07-11
The ReadTGAImage function in coders\tga.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via invalid colors data in the header of a TGA or VST file.
CVE-2017-11310HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.8
2017-07-13
The read_user_chunk_callback function in coders\png.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 Q16 2017-06-21 (beta) has memory leak vulnerabilities via crafted PNG files.
CVE-2017-11447MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5
2017-07-19
The ReadSCREENSHOTImage function in coders/screenshot.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.6-1 has memory leaks, causing denial of service.

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