In my previous post “Chrome Browser Exploitation, Part 1: Introduction to V8 and JavaScript Internals”, we took our first deep dive into the world of browser exploitation by covering a few complex topics that were necessary for fundamental knowledge. We mainly covered topics on how JavaScript and V8 worked under the hood by exploring what objects, maps and shapes were, how these objects were structured in memory, and we also covered some basic memory optimizations such as pointer tagging ...| Jack Hacks
Personal website of Benedikt Meurer, JavaScript Engine Hacker and Programming Language Enthusiast.| benediktmeurer.de
V8 v7.4 supports JavaScript execution without allocating executable memory at runtime.| v8.dev
Web browsers, our extensive gateway to the internet. Browsers today play a vital role in modern organizations as more and more software applications are delivered to users via a web browser in the form of web applications. Pretty much everything you might have done on the internet involves the use of a web browser, and as a result, browsers are among the most utilized consumer facing software products on the planet.| Jack Hacks
"Prefer readability over premature optimization" is a popular developer mantra, but the mantra also implies that the two are mutually exclusive. Does this assumption actually hold true when we are dealing with hard-to-parse one-liners?| Shimin's Separate Concerns