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Manipulating private method behaviour by overriding public virtual methods in public classes

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This code shows an interresting example were I was able to control a variable used inside an private member using an overrided virtual method which i controled

The virtual method

       System.Collections.ArrayList.set_Capacity

is used in

       private System.Void System.Collections.ArrayList::EnsureCapacity(System.Int32)

and can be invoked from (i.e. it is used by)

       System.Collections.ArrayList.Add(Object) : Int32
       System.Collections.ArrayList.Insert(Int32, Object) : Void
       System.Collections.ArrayList.InsertRange(Int32, ICollection) : Void

so by overriding the public method I am able to afect the behaviour of a private method (which I don't have access to)

In this example bellow I override the ArrayList's Capacity method which is then invoked by the private method private ArrayList.EnsureCapacity (which was invoked by the public method ArrayList.Add)

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;

namespace Owasp
{
   class myOverride : System.Collections.ArrayList
   {
       public override int Capacity
       {
           set
           {
               Console.WriteLine("Inside  myOverride.set_Capacity (the method under our control)");
               base.Capacity = base.Capacity+1;
               Console.WriteLine("\n Current Stack trace (note that  System.Collections.ArrayList.EnsureCapacity(Int32 min) is a private method)\n");                
               Console.WriteLine(new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace().ToString());
           }
           get
           {
               Console.WriteLine("Inside  myOverride.get_Capacity");
               return base.Capacity;
           }
       }
       public override string ToString()
       {
           Console.WriteLine("ToString() invoked");
           return base.ToString();
       }
   }
   class ArrayCapacity_Test
   {
       public static void Main()
       {
   
           System.Collections.ArrayList myOver = new myOverride();            
           try
           {
               myOver.Add("test");
           //    Console.WriteLine(myOver.Capacity);
           }
           catch (Exception Ex)
           {
               Console.WriteLine(Ex.Message);
               Console.WriteLine(Ex.StackTrace);
           }
       }
   }
}


(from Reflector) sourcecode of private System.Void System.Collections.ArrayList::EnsureCapacity(System.Int32)

private void EnsureCapacity(int min)
{
     if (this._items.Length < min)
     {
           int num1 = (this._items.Length == 0) ? 0x10 : (this._items.Length * 2);
           if (num1 < min)
           {
                 num1 = min;
           }
           this.Capacity = num1;
     }
}

(from Reflector) sourcecode of private System.Void System.Collections.ArrayList::Add(System.object)

public virtual int Add(object value)
{
     if (this._size == this._items.Length)
     {
           this.EnsureCapacity(this._size + 1);
     }
     this._items[this._size] = value;
     this._version++;
     return this._size++;
}