Question

I am writing an imaging app in WPF C#. It reads the image file pixel by pixel using unsafe code.

The problem I am getting is it throws the error Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. when writing the pixel value. It works fine for some images and for others it shows the error. Following is the code:

unsafe
            {
                byte* pbuff = (byte*)buff.ToPointer();
                for (int i = 0; i < size; i=i+stride)
                  {
                        pbuff[i] = (byte)cr[j].NewColor.Blue;
                        pbuff[i + 1] = (byte)cr[j].NewColor.Green; // here it shows error
                        pbuff[i + 2] = (byte)cr[j].NewColor.Red;
                   }
            }

EDIT

Reading of the pixels works fine.

                B = (double)pbuff[i];
                G = (double)pbuff[i + 1];
                R = (double)pbuff[i + 2];

It does not shows any error while reading but for the same index (that was read) it shows error when attempted to write.

Answer 1

Basically this means that you are trying to write to the memory outside the memory allocated for the object referenced by pbuff.

So this is basically the same as array index out of bounds in safe code.