Use-after-free

A temporal memory-safety vulnerability class where code dereferences a pointer to already-freed heap memory, enabling crashes or exploitation, and the exact bug category that memory-safe languages like Rust are designed to eliminate.

grounded in: Trend theme 'Systemic security vulnerabilities' + NOTABLE 'GhostLock: a newly disclosed stack use-after-[free]' — long-dormant memory-safety bugs in ubiquitous infrastructure; grounded in this system'