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Re:Chrome OS exploit: WebAsm, Site Isolation, crosh, crash r... by fpoling on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:49PM (#15717767)
WASM resulted in adding a lot of new API to JS, like thread-shared buffers and coming atomics. This requires quite a few new lines of native code in the implementation significantly increasing attack surface. Another thing is that WASM makes code faster so exploiting timing bugs or cache leaks gets easier.

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