A Mere Mortal's Introduction to JIT Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Engines - TrustFoundry

There are some people who seem to have a mysterious ability to grasp complex technical topics easily. You know the people I’m talking about; the ones who quickly whip up custom SMT solvers in Rust on the weekends, the ones who casually say things like “concolic execution” and “Huffman tree” without batting an eye. The ones who manage to somehow find use after frees in seemingly unrelated parts of enormous codebases. In other words, the Smart People. I, on the other hand, am not one of the Smart People. I wouldn’t know where to begin with writing an SMT solver. I’ve read about concolic execution before and I still could barely tell you a thing about it if my life depended on it. I’m more in the category of People Who Try to Make Up For Their Deficiencies Through Sheer Force of Will, which doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.