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Publication date: 2025-11-03

Last updated on: 2025-11-05

Assigner: MITRE

Description

NetSurf 3.11 is vulnerable to Use After Free in dom_node_set_text_content function.

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Published

2025-11-03

Last Modified

2025-11-05

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-11-03

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-29699

EUVD

EUVD-2025-37485

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
netsurf-browser	netsurf	3.11

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-416	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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability in NetSurf 3.11 is a Use After Free issue occurring in the dom_node_set_text_content function. It means that the program may attempt to use memory after it has been freed, which can lead to unexpected behavior or crashes.

Impact Analysis

The Use After Free vulnerability can potentially lead to program crashes, memory corruption, or exploitation by attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service.

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