Even if this was properly written C++ this wouldn't have worked, i.e. if the authors had used a std::vector instead of a hodgepodge of new and malloc. Even if y

Even if this was properly written C++ this wouldn't have worked, i.e. if the authors had used a std::vector instead of a hodgepodge of new and malloc. Even if you had overflowed the integer and used it to reserve some capacity in a vector, calling `push_back` would have reallocated the vector instead. Containers and move/by-value semantics in C++ inherently avoid a lot of stuff, it's sad seeing so many C++ developers do not actually know the language and instead stick with a "C with classes" that doesn't provide any extra security compared with C.