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V8: A Year with Spectre
The V8 team details their analysis and mitigation strategy for Spectre, one of the top computer security issues of 2018.
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The V8 Sandbox
V8 features a lightweight, in-process sandbox to limit the impact of memory corruption bugs
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Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety on C++
Eliminating use-after-frees vulnerabilities in Chrome with heap scanning.