Understanding the ins and outs of dynamic memory management is especially worthwhile for C++ programmers. C++ offers many facilities–most notably classes with constructors and destructors–that ...

According to the C++ Standard, these four variants of operator new (new, new [] , nothrow new , and nothrow new [] ) are the only replaceable memory allocation functions. If you really want to prevent ...

By employing a timing side channel while exploiting the heap vulnerabilities, which essentially allow attackers to manipulate the kernel’s memory allocation process, the researchers were able to ...