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Secutity holes - part V

posted onOctober 23, 2001
by hitbsecnews

Source: News Forge

This fifth article of our series is dedicated to security problems related to multitasking. A race condition occurs when different processes use the same resource (file, device, memory) at the same time and each one "believes" it has exclusive access. This leads to difficult to detect bugs and also to security holes that can compromise a system's global security

Conntinue reading this article over at Linuxfocus.org.

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