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		berkes on Feb 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making a PDF that's larger than Germany Row hammer is an exploit. It wasn't "by design". While that may technically be "escaping the sandbox" it's a different case, because it was never meant to work, will be fixed and often is fixed.

afiori on Feb 1, 2024 [–]

Almost every "escaping the sandbox" is due to some kind of bug.

Sure if the PDF standard exposed a "globalThis.runBlobAsNativeExecutable" function it would be worse, but it is still escaping the sandbox.

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