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Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C by Gupta2 on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:33PM (#42922667)
Speaking of WebAssembly security, is it vulnerable to Spectre/CPU style attacks like those in JavaScript? (WASM without imported JS functions)
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Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C by saagarjha on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:55PM (#42922969)
Yes.
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Re:I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C by jeffparsons on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:37PM (#42924301)
Yes, if you give the Wasm instance access to timers.
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