Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com...
by estebarb on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:49AM
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Or take the Chrome / original Go approach: load that code in a different process, use some kind of RPC. With all the context switch penalty... sigh, I think it is the only way, as the MMU permissions work at a page level.
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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com...
by josephg on Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:44PM
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Firefox also has its solution of compiling dependencies to wasm, then compiling the wasm back into C code and linking that. It’s super weird, but the effect is that each dependency ends up isolated in bounds checked memory. No context switch penalty, but instead the code runs significantly slower.