CWE-244 在释放前清理堆内存不恰当（堆检查）

Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection')

结构: Simple

Abstraction: Variant

状态: Draft

被利用可能性: unkown

基本描述

Using realloc() to resize buffers that store sensitive information can leave the sensitive information exposed to attack, because it is not removed from memory.

扩展描述

When sensitive data such as a password or an encryption key is not removed from memory, it could be exposed to an attacker using a "heap inspection" attack that reads the sensitive data using memory dumps or other methods. The realloc() function is commonly used to increase the size of a block of allocated memory. This operation often requires copying the contents of the old memory block into a new and larger block. This operation leaves the contents of the original block intact but inaccessible to the program, preventing the program from being able to scrub sensitive data from memory. If an attacker can later examine the contents of a memory dump, the sensitive data could be exposed.

相关缺陷

• cwe_Nature: ChildOf cwe_CWE_ID: 226 cwe_View_ID: 1000 cwe_Ordinal: Primary

• cwe_Nature: ChildOf cwe_CWE_ID: 226 cwe_View_ID: 699 cwe_Ordinal: Primary

• cwe_Nature: CanPrecede cwe_CWE_ID: 669 cwe_View_ID: 1000

适用平台

Language: [{'cwe_Name': 'C', 'cwe_Prevalence': 'Undetermined'}, {'cwe_Name': 'C++', 'cwe_Prevalence': 'Undetermined'}]

常见的影响

示例代码

例

The following code calls realloc() on a buffer containing sensitive data:

bad C

There is an attempt to scrub the sensitive data from memory, but realloc() is used, so a copy of the data can still be exposed in the memory originally allocated for cleartext_buffer.

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