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Memory issues and JIT bugs mostly :) https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec... >Looking at CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) data after 2019 shows that roughly 45% of CVEs issued for V8 were related to the JIT engine. Moreover, we know that attackers weaponize and abuse these bugs as well; an analysis from Mozilla shows that over half of the “in the wild” Chrome exploits abused a JIT bu…
> you can literally turn off JIT with a few clicks Am I the only one not able to see this for browsers other than Microsoft Edge? Disabling JIT looks like cli flags only for Chrome/Brave/etc, which isn't activated when you've clicked on a link outside the browser or other methods for launching the default browser application, probably the most important times for security as it's often initiating login flows for apps…
Re: Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022
#51Another approach, if on Windows, is to use the powerful HitmanPro Alert, which includes "Jit Guard", which will work across the board.