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pizlonatortoday at 2:21 AM0 repliesview on HN

Yeah rlbox is great.

Fil-C is more precise than valgrind or asan. Valgrind and asan will allow a buggy access (like an OOB) to succeed if the resulting address is valid at all - which is useless from a security enforcement perspective since clobbering valid addresses is what the attacker is trying to do.

Fil-C only allows an access to succeed if it’s in bounds of that pointer’s capability. That is a useful level of precision for security, since it prevents the attacker from clobbering the addresses of their choice.