Re:Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior ...
by graemep on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:22PM
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Web browsers rely on the sandbox. Almost everyone runs untrusted code single day. There are very few people who do not trust the sandbox.
It does not directly affect servers if one rejects your rather broad definition of untrusted, but does indirectly.
> I’m pretty sure untrusted code means code you can’t trust, which includes any code that you haven’t either analyzed yourself or put through some sort of institutional review with auditable sign-offs.
That is so broad that very people are running trusted code. You would need to ensure your entire stack down to the firmware it runs on had been analysed.
It is how these conversations always go:
There’s a hole in the sandbox.
If you were trusting the sandbox, you were already doomed.
Nobody validates their code well enough to trust it. (we are here)
The ecosystem and industry is just irreparably damaged.
What am I supposed to do about that?
Non-solutions, because it is an impossible problem to actually fix