A Tour of TOCTTOUs

Time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) vulnerabilities exist due to race conditions arising from an invalid assumption: That nothing affecting the validity of a security assertion changes between the time it is checked and the time an operation that depends on that assertion is performed. In fact...

By

Craig Lowery

May 23, 2003

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