Heap corruption: What could the cause be?

Question

I am investigating a crash due to heap corruption. As this issue is non-trivial and involves analyzing the stack and dump results, I have decided to do a code review of file

Answer 1

You can look at the sample chapter from the Advanced Windows Debugging book which provides various examples of heap corruption.

EDIT: If you are using stl containers which might move elements during changes (i.e. vector, deque), ensure that you are not keeping references into such elements across operations which might changes it.