Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for double free issues
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A critical memory safety vulnerability was discovered and patched in a Windows clipboard handler written in C, where heap-allocated memory was freed twice without nullifying the pointer, enabling potential remote code execution through crafted clipboard data. This type of double-free vulnerability represents one of the most dangerous classes of memory corruption bugs, capable of being weaponized by attackers to hijack program execution. The fix eliminates the unsafe memory management pattern, cl