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/**
* @name Potential double free
* @description Freeing a resource more than once can lead to undefined behavior and cause memory corruption.
* @kind path-problem
* @precision medium
* @id cpp/double-free
* @problem.severity warning
* @security-severity 9.3
* @tags reliability
* security
* external/cwe/cwe-415
*/
import cpp
import semmle.code.cpp.dataflow.new.DataFlow
import FlowAfterFree
import DoubleFree::PathGraph
predicate isFree(DataFlow::Node n, Expr e) { isFree(n, e, _) }
/**
* `dealloc1` is a deallocation expression and `e` is an expression such
* that is deallocated by a deallocation expression, and the `(dealloc1, e)` pair
* should be excluded by the `FlowFromFree` library.
*
* Note that `e` is not necessarily the expression deallocated by `dealloc1`. It will
* be bound to the second deallocation as identified by the `FlowFromFree` library.
*/
bindingset[dealloc1, e]
predicate isExcludeFreePair(DeallocationExpr dealloc1, Expr e) {
exists(DeallocationExpr dealloc2 | isFree(_, e, dealloc2) |
dealloc1.(FunctionCall).getTarget().hasGlobalName("MmFreePagesFromMdl") and
// From https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/wdm/nf-wdm-mmfreepagesfrommdl:
// "After calling MmFreePagesFromMdl, the caller must also call ExFreePool
// to release the memory that was allocated for the MDL structure."
isExFreePoolCall(dealloc2, _)
)
}
module DoubleFree = FlowFromFree<isFree/2, isExcludeFreePair/2>;
from DoubleFree::PathNode source, DoubleFree::PathNode sink, DeallocationExpr dealloc, Expr e2
where
DoubleFree::flowPath(source, sink) and
isFree(source.getNode(), _, dealloc) and
isFree(sink.getNode(), e2)
select sink.getNode(), source, sink,
"Memory pointed to by '" + e2.toString() + "' may already have been freed by $@.", dealloc,
dealloc.toString()