In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: fix use-after-free in nfsd4_ssc_setup_dul() If signal_pending() returns true, schedule_timeout() will not be executed, causing the waiting task to remain in the wait queue. Fixed by adding a call to finish_wait(), which ensures that the waiting task will always be removed from the wait queue.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.