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Re:JIT-Less V8 by jayshua on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @12:42PM (#19380497)
Anyone know how common attacks that take advantage of the JIT technology actually are?
Re:JIT-Less V8 by landr0id on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:58PM (#19383052)
It's been used consistently to get initial code execution on the PlayStation 4, iOS (for attacks involving just following a web link), and probably used pretty consistently other nation-state attacks but I have no real data to back this up.

The Pegasus spyware for instance utilized a JIT attack in JavaScriptCore in Safari for the initial stage.

Re:JIT-Less V8 by olliej on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:21PM (#19384522)
the RWX memory in JSC has frequently been used as the start of full remote code execution, but has become progressively harder to abuse over the years (via W^X and in newer hardware PAC).