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The program implements an virtual machine for a very simple customized register-based instruction set. The virtual register value can either be an integer or a reference to a list of integers, and the instructions involve operations setting and getting the value of the register or the element of the list. The VM is implemented as a pipeline: in each execution cycle, multiple threads are created to perform different tasks. Due to such multi-threading, race condition can occur that allows us to tamper some important data, which allows us to leak the flag.

Original writeup (https://mem2019.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/06/17/Codegate.html#pcpu).