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SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard	MEM53-CPP. Explicitly initiate and terminate object lifetime when manually managing lifetime MEM08-CPP. Use new and delete rather than raw memory allocation and deallocation MEM13-CPP. Use smart pointers instead of raw pointers for resource management
CERT C Secure Coding Standard	MEM31-C. Free dynamically allocated memory when no longer needed MEM34-C. Only free memory allocated dynamically
MITRE CWE	CWE 590, Free of Memory Not on the Heap CWE 415, Double Free CWE 404, Improper Resource Shutdown or Release CWE 762, Mismatched Memory Management Routines

Bibliography

Item 16,

[Dowd 2007]	"Attacking `delete` and `delete []` in C++"
[Henricson 1997]	Rule 8.1, `delete` should only be used with `new` Rule 8.2, `delete []` should only be used with `new []`
[ISO/IEC 14882-2014]	5.3.5, "Delete" 12.8, "Copying and Moving Class Objects" 18.6.1, "Storage Allocation and Deallocation"
[Seacord 2013b Meyers 2005]	Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management"
[Viega 05]	"Doubly Freeing Memory"
[Henricson 1997]	Rule 8.1, `delete` should only be used with `new` Rule 8.2, `delete []` should only be used with `new []`
[Meyers 2005]	Item 16, Use the same form in corresponding uses of `new` and `delete`
[Dowd 2007 Seacord 2013b]"Attacking `delete` and `delete []` in C++"	Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management"
[Viega 05]	"Doubly Freeing Memory"

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