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Are there any potential security implications in providing low level access to OpenGL through a WebGL abstraction? Have there been any exploits in the wild?
by deanclatworthy 12y ago
Are there any potential security implications in providing low level access to OpenGL through a WebGL abstraction? Have there been any exploits in the wild?
- Arnavion 12y agoThe browser is essentially giving user-supplied code (shaders) to a graphics driver that isn't sandboxed in the way the browser's Javascript VM is. This reason was used by Microsoft [1] and Apple to not implement WebGL in IE and Safari, but I don't know what's changed now. [1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-cons...