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Re:WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe by pjmlp on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:12AM (#18531223)
Control flow can also be manipulated via memory corruption, making the existing code take other decisions, due to non valid semantic states.
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Re:WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe by hackcasual on Monday November 26, 2018 @01:32AM (#18531559)
Sure, but that's even weaker, since you can't even create new control flows, just cause surprising ones.
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Re:WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe by pjmlp on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:23AM (#18531885)
It is enough to work around authentication checks, for example.
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