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

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++; }