[webkit-dev] RenderArena: Teaching an old dog new tricks

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.org
Tue Nov 13 22:32:50 PST 2012


Eric Seidel wrote:
> However, like those bell-bottoms in your father's closet, RenderArena is back
> in vogue and Chromium's security team very excited about
> RenderArena's security benefits.

Disco, like the drive-in, will never die.

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2010/10/mitigating-dangling-pointer-bugs-using_15.html 
discusses the frame-poisoning work in Gecko. It saved us from quite a 
number of potential 0days in the last two years, as far as I can tell.

/be


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