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
583 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
CVEs classified under CWE-772page 9 of 12
- CVE-2016-9911MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52016-12-23
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-2016-9907MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52016-12-23
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-2015-8631MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52016-02-13
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-2019-6474MEDIUMCVSS 5.7EG 6.52019-10-16
A missing check on incoming client requests can be exploited to cause a situation where the Kea server's lease storage contains leases which are rejected as invalid when the server tries to load leases from storage on restart. If the numbe…
- CVE-2018-10924MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 6.52018-09-04
It was discovered that fsync(2) system call in glusterfs client code leaks memory. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to launch a denial of service attack by making gluster clients consume memory of the host machine.
- CVE-2017-12278MEDIUMCVSS 6.3EG 6.32017-11-02
A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to restart, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condi…
- CVE-2024-22383MEDIUMCVSS 6.2EG 6.22024-03-05
Missing release of resource after effective lifetime (CWE-772) in the Controller 7000 resulted in HBUS connected T-Series readers to not automatically recover after coming under attack over the RS-485 interface, resulting in a persistent …
- CVE-2021-30002MEDIUMCVSS 6.2EG 6.22021-04-02
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.3 when a webcam device exists. video_usercopy in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c has a memory leak for large arguments, aka CID-fb18802a338b.
- CVE-2017-7377MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02017-04-10
The (1) v9fs_create and (2) v9fs_lcreate functions in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allow local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (file descriptor or memory consumption) via vectors related to an already in…
- CVE-2016-7995MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-12-10
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-2016-7994MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-12-10
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-2016-7466MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-12-10
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-2016-9106MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-12-09
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-2016-9105MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-12-09
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-2016-9102MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-12-09
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-2016-9101MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-12-09
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-2016-8577MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02016-11-04
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-2026-89096MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-10-16
A flaw was found in nfs-utils. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending repeated state notification requests to an exposed rpc.statd service. The service fails to properly release memory allocated…
- CVE-2026-85718MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-09-17
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 3.0.8 until 3.0.12, a client with maxConnections or maxConnectionsPerHost set above zero leaks one c…
- CVE-2026-18149MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-09-04
undici's retry handler can leave an already-exposed response body pending forever. When a server returns a successful response that declares a Content-Length, sends only part of the body, and closes the connection, the retry handler retrie…
- CVE-2026-56444MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-07-22
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.20.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound is configured with 'serve-expired: yes' and 'serve-expired-client-timeout > discard-timeout > 0' (contrary to the suggested values), the discard-timeout branch during th…
- CVE-2026-15713MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-07-14
A vulnerability was found in libsoup's HTTP/2 protocol implementation. The library fails to correctly release memory context blocks under specific stream termination conditions, such as when an HTTP/2 connection encounters window exhaustio…
- CVE-2026-49343MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92026-06-05
Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. In versions prior to 1.7.18, the account-data trie syncers are vulnerable to a resource-exhaustion flaw that leaks bounded throttler slots on error paths. In syncDataTri…
- CVE-2023-47124MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92023-12-04
Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. When Traefik is configured to use the `HTTPChallenge` to generate and renew the Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, the delay authorized to solve the challenge (50 seconds) can be…
- CVE-2023-22302MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92023-02-01
In BIG-IP versions 17.0.x before 17.0.0.2, and 16.1.x beginning in 16.1.2.2 to before 16.1.3.3, when an HTTP profile is configured on a virtual server and conditions beyond the attacker’s control exist on the target pool member, undisclo…
- CVE-2019-5023MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92019-10-31
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the grsecurity PaX patch for the function read_kmem, in PaX from version pax-linux-4.9.8-test1 to 4.9.24-test7, grsecurity official from version grsecurity-3.1-4.9.8-201702060653 to grsecurity-3.1-4.9…
- CVE-2018-19132MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92018-11-09
Squid before 4.4, when SNMP is enabled, allows a denial of service (Memory Leak) via an SNMP packet.
- CVE-2017-15094MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92018-01-23
An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA keys. These keys are only parsed when validation is enabled b…
- CVE-2017-16672MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92017-11-09
An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13 before 13.18.1, 14 before 14.7.1, and 15 before 15.1.1 and Certified Asterisk 13.13 before 13.13-cert7. A memory leak occurs when an Asterisk pjsip session object is created and that call …
- CVE-2017-15671MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92017-10-20
The glob function in glob.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, could skip freeing allocated memory when processing the ~ operator with a long user name, potentially leading to a denial of s…
- CVE-2017-14970MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92017-10-02
In lib/ofp-util.c in Open vSwitch (OvS) before 2.8.1, there are multiple memory leaks while parsing malformed OpenFlow group mod messages. NOTE: the vendor disputes the relevance of this report, stating "it can only be triggered by an Open…
- CVE-2017-7521MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92017-06-27
OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service due to memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks and double-free issue in extract_x509_extension().
- CVE-2020-11637MEDIUMCVSS 5.8EG 5.82020-10-15
A memory leak in the TFTP service in B&R Automation Runtime versions <N4.26, <N4.34, <F4.45, <E4.53, <D4.63, <A4.73 and prior could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.
- CVE-2026-19937MEDIUMCVSS 5.7EG 5.72026-10-12
The Bluetooth Mesh Access layer delayable-message machinery in subsys/bluetooth/mesh/delayable_msg.c manages a static pool of CONFIG_BT_MESH_ACCESS_DELAYABLE_MSG_COUNT message contexts (default 4) threaded onto a free_ctx or busy_ctx list.…
- CVE-2017-13683MEDIUMCVSS 5.7EG 5.72017-10-23
In Symantec Endpoint Encryption before SEE 11.1.3HF3, a kernel memory leak is a type of resource leak that can occur when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not …
- CVE-2017-13682MEDIUMCVSS 5.7EG 5.72017-10-23
In Symantec Encryption Desktop before SED 10.4.1 MP2HF1, a kernel memory leak is a type of resource leak that can occur when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is n…
- CVE-2022-26356MEDIUMCVSS 5.6EG 5.62022-04-05
Racy interactions between dirty vram tracking and paging log dirty hypercalls Activation of log dirty mode done by XEN_DMOP_track_dirty_vram (was named HVMOP_track_dirty_vram before Xen 4.9) is racy with ongoing log dirty hypercalls. A sui…
- CVE-2026-104035MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-10-06
A flaw was found in SSSD. An issue in the Kerberos Credential Manager (KCM) responder allows a local user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by maintaining a persistent connection and repeatedly storing and destroying credentials. Because …
- CVE-2026-104031MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-10-06
A flaw was found in SSSD. In configurations where the autofs responder service is enabled, memory allocated during successful request processing is not released until the client connection terminates. A local attacker can exploit this vuln…
- CVE-2026-97686MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-28
Wind River VxWorks 7 prior to 26.09, specific system call arguments can result in the IPNET subsystem failing to properly release allocated kernel memory and system file descriptors before terminating the calling application. Fixed in Vers…
- CVE-2026-100079MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: unregister debugfs entries on teardown ucsi_register() creates per-instance debugfs entries, but ucsi_unregister() keeps them around until ucsi_destroy…
- CVE-2026-72931MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-08
Missing release of resource after effective lifetime in Windows Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally.
- CVE-2026-53251MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-06-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: ISO: Fix not releasing hdev reference on iso_conn_big_sync hci_get_route() returns a reference-counted hci_dev pointer via hci_dev_hold(). The function exits …
- CVE-2026-53154MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-06-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths Two sites in mm/hugetlb.c allocate a hugetlb folio via alloc_hugetlb_folio() (consuming a VMA reserv…
- CVE-2026-46292MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-06-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pmdomain: core: Fix detach procedure for virtual devices in genpd If a device is attached to a PM domain through genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id(), genpd calls pm_runtime_enab…
- CVE-2026-45287MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-28
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Prior to version 0.0.17, `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.0` and `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.1` leaks one file descriptor on each successful `ParseFile` call. `ParseFil…
- CVE-2026-43314MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: remove fake timeout to avoid leak request Since commit 15f73f5b3e59 ("blk-mq: move failure injection out of blk_mq_complete_request"), drivers are responsible for ca…
- CVE-2026-43257MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cx88: Add missing unmap in snd_cx88_hw_params() In error path, add cx88_alsa_dma_unmap() to release resource acquired by cx88_alsa_dma_map().
- CVE-2026-43054MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: tcm_loop: Drain commands in target_reset handler tcm_loop_target_reset() violates the SCSI EH contract: it returns SUCCESS without draining any in-flight c…
- CVE-2026-23299MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: purge error queues in socket destructors When TX timestamping is enabled via SO_TIMESTAMPING, SKBs may be queued into sk_error_queue and will stay there until…
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