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		mnemotronic on Aug 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Towards a JavaScript Binary AST Yea! A whole new attack surface. A hacked AST file could cause memory corruption and other faults in the browser-side binary expander.

Yoric on Aug 19, 2017 [–]

Sure, a new file format always introduces a new risk. This has never prevented browsers from adding support for new image formats or compression schemes, though.

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