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bboozzoo | 4 months ago

> What is surprising is that a classic Time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) bug was latent in their system until Monday. Call me naive, but I thought AWS, an organization running a service that averages 100 million RPS, would have flushed out TOCTOU bugs from their critical services.

Yeah, right. I'm surprised how anyone involved with software engineering can be surprised by this. I would argue that there many, if not infinitely many, similar bugs out there. It's just that the right conditions for them to show up haven't been met yet.

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accrual|4 months ago

I had a similar thought. TOCTOU bugs could be anywhere and only take a few lines of code to create the conditions for them, but have no immediate warning they exist unless you're looking for them.