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My intuition is that it depends on how memory was laid out on the heap, which can depend on all sorts of operating system dependent decisions. It was actually fairly easily reproducible for me, for example (happening more than 50% of the time). Depending on the layout of the heap, the overwritten region of memory might have been entirely benign.