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CWE 2.11MITRE CWECWE-363, Race condition enabling link following2017-07-07: CERT: Exact

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Independent( CWE-764, POS51-C, POS35-C)

CWE-764 is about semaphores, or objects capable of being locked multiple times. Deadlock arises from multiple locks being acquired in a cyclic order, and generally does not arise from semaphores or recursive mutexes.

[Dowd 2006]Chapter 9, "UNIX 1: Privileges and Files"
[ISO/IEC 9899:2011]Section 7.21, "Input/output <stdio.h>"
[Open Group 2004]lstat()
fstat()
open()
[Seacord 2013]Chapter 8, "File I/O"

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