V8 features a lightweight, in-process sandbox to limit the impact of memory corruption bugs

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The V8 Sandbox is a security mechanism designed to prevent memory corruption in V8 from impacting other memory in the process. It is motivated by the fact that current memory safety technologies are largely inapplicable to optimizing JavaScript engines. The sandbox isolates V8's heap memory and replaces data types that can access out-of-sandbox memory with sandbox-compatible alternatives.

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