Re: [tor-bugs] #21011 [Applications/Tor Browser Sandbox]: Disable JavaScript JIT

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#21011: Disable JavaScript JIT
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks                       |          Owner:  yawning
     Type:  enhancement                       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser Sandbox  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  sandbox-security                  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 Replying to [comment:12 yawning]:
 > Replying to [comment:10 cypherpunks]:
 > > Unless my understanding of how Firefox deals with OpenBSD's W!^X
 protections are totally off, then it seems to me like it would not play
 nicely with PAX_MPROTECT.
 >
 > Yeah I was wrong sorry.  The stupid package for my distribution sets a
 bunch of flags.
 Well shit... But isn't there some patch which OpenBSD (and iOS) uses which
 disables RWX pages entirely? I bet that could be implemented via an
 `LD_PRELOAD` hook so this can work on grsec, unless that patch was the one
 for FF46.

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