{
 "id": "p2026-09-06-142",
 "received": "2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00",
 "proposer": "researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2024-2026",
 "kind": "entry",
 "sha": "21c6fed9ad9d8aa9",
 "data": {
  "kind": "entry",
  "tech": "big-sleep",
  "tech_name": "Big Sleep (Google Project Zero / DeepMind)",
  "definition": "an LLM agent fit to code and text, run as a variant-analysis fuzzing/reasoning agent over real codebases",
  "from": "2024-10",
  "region": "world",
  "domain": "safety",
  "side": "benefit",
  "people": {
   "n": 0,
   "unit": "SQLite users impacted by the flaw",
   "date": "2024-11-01"
  },
  "effect": {
   "n": 1,
   "unit": "vulnerabilities",
   "date": "2024-11-01",
   "what": "an exploitable stack buffer underflow in SQLite found and fixed the same day, before it reached any official release"
  },
  "reversible": true,
  "switch": "owner:Google",
  "statistic": "In early October 2024 Big Sleep found an exploitable stack buffer underflow in SQLite; it was fixed the day it was reported and never shipped, so zero users were exposed. Google calls it the first public case of an AI agent finding an unknown exploitable memory-safety bug in widely used real-world software.",
  "source": "https://projectzero.google/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-sleep.html",
  "quote": "we found this issue before it appeared in an official release, so SQLite users were not impacted",
  "attribution": "named",
  "source_kind": "primary"
 },
 "from_file": "impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2024-2026.md"
}