PoCL developers are committed to the highest level of quality especially related to security issues in the main branch that forms the basis for PoCL releases. This security policy outlines the methods and steps taken to handle security issues.

OpenCL programs have primary goal of performance. Since PoCL is an OpenCL implementation can invoke any OpenCL/SPIR-V-defined code in the user's devices. However, sometimes mitigating against such malicious programs with software means leads to significant performance impact. Therefore, malicious programs injected via user kernels are out of scope, unless the vulnerability can be mitigated without any performance impact.

However, vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows or exploitable race conditions present in the core runtime, which is implemented in C on the purpose of maximum portability and lightness, are of high interest.

The latest release version is supported with security patches, if any are required, until the next major release. This policy started from release 6.0.

To report any 0-day vulnerabilities you have found in the code base, please send an email to all the lead maintainers of the project: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

Another option to report the vulnerability is to utilize the Github form https://github.com/pocl/pocl/security/advisories/new

After your submission, someone from the team will contact you within 7 days with information on how your disclosure was or will be mitigated and when the fix will be available in a security update release.