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Written by Laurence Tratt on 2025-01-28 at 11:34

New post: "Can We Retain the Benefits of Transitive Dependencies Without Undermining Security?" https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/can_we_retain_the_benefits_of_transitive_dependencies_without_undermining_security.html

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Written by Janne Moren on 2025-01-28 at 12:21

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I would say this needs hardware support; some kind of privilege barrier operating across regular procedure calls between components. The callee can only see its own stack frame, and heap memory allocated by itself or explicitly passed to it.

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Written by Laurence Tratt on 2025-01-28 at 12:23

@jannem I broadly agree.

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Written by Tom Ritter on 2025-01-29 at 12:07

@ltratt @jannem that's broadly how wasmboxing works in Firefox to isolate some third party libraries, but without explicit hardware support https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again-fine-grained-sandboxing-in-firefox-95/

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