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A symlink race is a kind of software security vulnerability that results from a program creating files in an insecure manner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/132.html )〕 A malicious user can create a symbolic link to a file not otherwise accessible to him or her. When the privileged program creates a file of the same name as the symbolic link, it actually creates the linked-to file instead, possibly inserting content desired by the malicious user (see example below), or even provided by the malicious user (as input to the program). It is called a "race" because in its typical manifestation, the program checks to see if a file by that name already exists, then creates the file. An attacker must create the link in the interval between the check and when the file is created. ==Example== In this naive example, the Unix program foo is setuid. Its function is to retrieve information for the accounts specified by the user. For "efficiency", it sorts the requested accounts into a temporary file (/tmp/foo naturally) before making the queries. The directory /tmp is world-writable. Malicious user Mallory creates a symbolic link to the file /root/.rhosts named /tmp/foo. Then, Mallory invokes foo with ''user'' as the requested account. The program creates the (temporary) file /tmp/foo (really creating /root/.rhosts) and puts information about the requested account (e.g. ''user password'') in it. It removes the temporary file (merely removing the symbolic link). Now the /root/.rhosts contains password information, which (if it even happens to be in the proper format) is the incantation necessary to allow anyone to use rlogin to log into the computer as the superuser. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Symlink race」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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