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pizlonatorlast Sunday at 2:24 AM1 replyview on HN

> Running ffmpeg compiled for wasm and watching as most codec selections lead to runtime crashes due to invalid memory accesses is fun.

For all you know that’s a bug in the wasm port of the codec.

> it’s runtime safety

So is Fil-C

The problem with wasm is that an OOBA in one C allocation in the wasm guest can still give the attacker the power to clobber any memory in the guest. All that’s protected is the host. That’s enough to achieve weird execution.

Hence why I say that wasm is a sandbox. It’s not memory safety.


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ComputerGurulast Sunday at 2:56 AM

I’m not disagreeing with anything you said about wasm?