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NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs Face Virtualization Bug, $1K Bounty Offered

9/8/2025

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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs have a virtualization bug causing unresponsiveness after extended use.
CloudRift reported that affected GPUs become inaccessible without rebooting the node system.
The issue arises during VM usage with the VFIO driver, resulting in a kernel 'soft lock.'
Other models, such as the RTX 4090 and Blackwell B200, are not impacted.
NVIDIA is addressing the problem, essential for AI workloads, while CloudRift offers a $1,000 bug bounty for solutions.

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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs have a virtualization bug causing unresponsiveness after extended use.
CloudRift reported that affected GPUs become inaccessible without rebooting the node system.
The issue arises during VM usage with the VFIO driver, resulting in a kernel 'soft lock.'
Other models, such as the RTX 4090 and Blackwell B200, are not impacted.
NVIDIA is addressing the problem, essential for AI workloads, while CloudRift offers a $1,000 bug bounty for solutions.