static CURLcode setup_connection_internals(struct connectdata *conn)
{
  const struct Curl_handler * p;
  CURLcode result;
  conn->socktype = SOCK_STREAM; /* most of them are TCP streams */

  /* Perform setup complement if some. */
  p = conn->handler;

  if(p->setup_connection) {
    result = (*p->setup_connection)(conn);

    if(result)
      return result;

    p = conn->handler;              /* May have changed. */
  }

  if(conn->port < 0)
    /* we check for -1 here since if proxy was detected already, this
       was very likely already set to the proxy port */
    conn->port = p->defport;

  return CURLE_OK;
}

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory belongs to the code that operates on the new pointer.