When you’re freeing memory, remember to set the memory contents to 0 so no other malicious program can read it after it’s been freed.
//For example#define DATA_SIZEBOOL function(){ char pszData = NULL; //Memory pointer //Allocate memory pszData = new char [DATA_SIZE]; if(pszData == NULL){ return(FALSE); } //Reset the memory Initially memset(pszData, 0, sizeof(char) * DATA_SIZE); .... //Use the memory and free it before the return() statement //The below part is Important to protect the data memset(pszData, 0, sizeof(char) * DATA_SIZE); delete [] pszData; return(TRUE);}
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