Double Free
Noun · Security & Infosec
Definitions
Double Free is an attack technique in which an adversary frees the same memory region twice and creates allocator corruption that can be exploitable. Defenders analyze it to understand prerequisites, affected trust boundaries, and likely telemetry, then reduce risk with layered controls such as validation, hardening, rate limits, segmentation, and high-quality logging for investigation and response.
In plain English: Double Free is a way attackers abuse systems or trust relationships, and defenders counter it with better design, validation, monitoring, and layered controls.
Example: "During the assessment, the team simulated Double Free against a staging service, confirmed the weakness with logs and telemetry, and then added tighter validation, safer defaults, and monitoring so the same technique would trigger an alert in production."