As Flash was known for it having more holes than a Swiss cheese, how is Ruffle in terms of security?
To be fair it’s a flash drop in replacement. It isn’t supposed to be secure by design, just like flash.
It is, the whole purpose of Ruffle is to play flash files, but without a security threat (which is the whole reason Flash doesn’t exist anymore).
I expect it to fair much better than Flash. 808/1020 (79%) of the CVEs reported against flash were for memory errors (buffer overruns and things) that allowed remote code execution. So, assuming the Ruffle developers haven’t been using “unsafe”, just writing it in Rust immediately removes 80% of the security problems that were with Flash.
Also, many of the security problems with Flash were deliberate (by design). For example, Flash was designed to send your browser fingerprint to advertising sites. Ruffle obviously doesn’t do that.
Thanks for your explanation!
It’s running in a sandbox afaik, and the goal is to replace Flash but stay secure. Since it uses Web Assembly, you can’t use Ruffle in any way to create any security threat, you couldn’t create without using Ruffle. (Different to Flash, which created tons of new security threats, even leading to the plugin being disable).
So instead of having a Flash Player plugin like in the old days, Flash content is going to be run by a WebAssembly runtime that’s kind of like what Wine is to Windows applications on Linux?
EDIT: fuck, didn’t notice that the thread is 3 years old and I don’t know why this appeared on my feed
Thanks for noticing, guess my comment moved it up but I am surprised to see that now as well. Another victim of the Lemmy sorting bugs.
