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How so? As far as I understand, being able to leak an ASLR slide from JavaScript is considered to be a security bug in every browser engine, because they do not intentionally provide access to that information.


Whether the browser intends to provide that information or not, ASLR was not designed as a control against an attacker who can run near arbitrary code in the process.




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