Re:WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe
by monocasa on Monday November 26, 2018 @04:40PM
(#18537053)
Heartbleed fully allocated the larger buffer. It wouldn't have crashed. It was just uninitialized memory being read out. Yes, munmap and remap would have cleared that ram, but so would the malloc clearing.
> "web asm -- if it was good enough for openssl!"
More like, "OpenBSD, so slow that people feel the need to write their own malloc".
> "web asm -- if it was good enough for openssl!"
More like, "OpenBSD, so slow that people feel the need to write their own malloc".