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Last updated 17 July 2026

Virgil 3d project, used by Quick Emulator(Qemu) to implement 3D GPU support for the virtio GPU, is vulnerable to an OOB array access issue. It could occur when creating vertex elements array in vrendcreatevertexelementsstate().

A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance resulting DoS.

Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=114688c526fe45f341d75ccd1d85473c3b08f7a7

Reference: ---------- -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/8

All, FYI:

DARPA and ARPA-H are running a research competition called the "AI Cyber Challenge" (AIxCC). Its goal is to create automated tools that find and fix vulnerabilities in software. General information is here: <https://aicyberchallenge.com/>

The AIxCC semifinal competition was last week at DEF CON 32 (2024). All competitors were given an identical set of Challenge Projects, which were real-world OSS projects seeded with synthetic vulnerabilities. The projects were Jenkins, Linux kernel, Nginx, SQLite3, and Apache Tika. There were 7 winners; each winner received $2 million US as a reward, and those teams will be allowed to compete in the finals at next year's DEF CON.

An official summary is here: <https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-08-11>. Some other interesting links related to the semifinals include: <https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/08/09/trail-of-bits-buttercup-heads-to-darpas-aixcc/> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQKGWZvuLko>

One of the competing teams, Team Atlanta, even found a real-world bug in SQLite3. This was reported to SQLite through their usual process; it's fixed in trunk. More info about that specifically is here: - <https://x.com/TeamAtlanta24/status/1822739301463130271> - <https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/81670d1056>

The tools must be released by next year as open source software, with an OSI-approved license, as a condition for accepting prize money or competing in the final competition. Exact text is in the "Open-Source Requirement" section in its rules <https://aicyberchallenge.com/rules/>. The challenge problems were all based on real-world OSS, and the hope is that in the long term such tools can automatically find & fix vulnerabilities in all software including OSS.

Full disclosure: I work for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and I have been working with DARPA & ARPA-H supporting this. That said, I thought others in this mailing list would want to know about it. No research is guaranteed to produce something leading to useful results, but I think this is a promising approach. We definitely could use tools that automatically find & fix vulnerabilities, if they're good enough!!

--- David A. Wheeler