CWE-762 11 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-762: Mismatched Memory Management Routines

Overview

CWE-762 (Mismatched Memory Management Routines) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls a release function that is not compatible with the function that was originally used to allocate that resource.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Memory-Unsafe Often
language C Undetermined
language C++ Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2025-11015 2025-09-26 A weakness has been identified in OGRECave Ogre up to 14.4.1. Impacted is the function STBIImageCodec::encode of the file /ogre/PlugIns/STBICodec/src/OgreSTBICodec.cpp. This manipulation causes mismat…
CVE-2025-49080 2025-06-12 There is a memory management vulnerability in Absolute Secure Access server versions 9.0 to 13.54. Attackers with network access to the server can cause a Denial of Service by sending a specially craf…
CVE-2025-48755 2025-05-24 In the spiral-rs crate 0.2.0 for Rust, allocation can be attempted for a ZST (zero-sized type).
CVE-2025-47737 2025-05-09 lib.rs in the trailer crate through 0.1.2 for Rust mishandles allocating with a size of zero.
CVE-2025-20189 2025-05-07 A vulnerability in the Cisco Express Forwarding functionality of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco ASR 903 Aggregation Services Routers with Route Switch Processor 3 (RSP3C) could allow an unauthenticat…
CVE-2024-32503 2024-06-07 An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor and Wearable Processor Exynos 850, Exynos 1080, Exynos 2100, Exynos 1280, Exynos 1380, Exynos 1330, Exynos W920, Exynos W930. The mobile processor l…
CVE-2024-4853 2024-05-14 Memory handling issue in editcap could cause denial of service via crafted capture file
CVE-2024-2955 2024-03-26 T.38 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0 to 4.0.3 and 4.0.0 to 4.0.13 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
CVE-2023-41056 2024-01-10 Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. Redis incorrectly handles resizing of memory buffers which can result in integer overflow that leads to heap overflow and potential remote code ex…
CVE-2023-45510 2023-10-12 tsMuxer version git-2539d07 was discovered to contain an alloc-dealloc-mismatch (operator new [] vs operator delete) error.
CVE-2023-3648 2023-07-14 Kafka dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.6 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.14 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2009-05-08
Version
1.4

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2009-12-28 CWE Content Team 1.7 updated Applicable_Platforms, Likelihood_of_Exploit
2010-06-21 CWE Content Team 1.9 updated Description, Potential_Mitigations
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-09-13 CWE Content Team 2.1 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-02-18 CWE Content Team 2.6 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Potential_Mitigations, References
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, References, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated References, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 updated Functional_Areas, References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, References, Weakness_Ordinalities
2026-04-30 CWE Content Team 4.20 updated Detection_Factors

Contributions

Type Name Date Comment
Feedback Martin Sebor 2010-04-30 Provided improvement to existing Mitigation
cvelogic Threat Intelligence