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Race conditions

Race conditions

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Race conditions

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- In this lesson, we're going to talk about race conditions and the vulnerabilities associated with them. Now, what exactly is a race condition? Well, a race condition is a software vulnerability that occurs when the resulting outcome from executing processes is directly dependent on the order and timing of certain events, and those events fail to execute in the order and timing that was intended by the developer. Essentially, this is a complicated way of saying that the computer is unexpectedly trying to race itself into processing certain types of data, and you get an unexpected result. For example, if you're trying to do something legitimate and the attacker's trying to do something malicious at the same time, they might be able to get their request in before yours so that they can actually take advantage of a race condition vulnerability in the program's code to run their processes before you can run yours. Race condition vulnerabilities are found when there are multiple threads…

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