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Improper Finite State Machines (FSMs) in Hardware Logic

CVE-2025-48508

Severity Medium
Score 6/10

Summary

Improper Hardware reset flow logic in the GPU GFX Hardware IP block could allow a privileged attacker in a guest virtual machine to control reset operation potentially causing host or GPU crash or reset resulting in denial of service.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-1245 - Improper Finite State Machines (FSMs) in Hardware Logic

Faulty finite state machines (FSMs) in the hardware logic allow an attacker to put the system in an undefined state, to cause a denial of service (DoS) or gain privileges on the victim's system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published