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GHSA-H5W4-4XVQ-QX5C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-05 18:31 – Updated: 2025-11-03 18:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: pfr_update: Fix the driver update version check

The security-version-number check should be used rather than the runtime version check for driver updates.

Otherwise, the firmware update would fail when the update binary had a lower runtime version number than the current one.

[ rjw: Changelog edits ]

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CVE-2025-39701 (GCVE-0-2025-39701)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-05 17:21 – Updated: 2025-11-03 17:42

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: pfr_update: Fix the driver update version check The security-version-number check should be used rather than the runtime version check for driver updates. Otherwise, the firmware update would fail when the update binary had a lower runtime version number than the current one. [ rjw: Changelog edits ]

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79300ff532bccbbf6…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf0a88124e357bffd…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b00219888c11519ef…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/908094681f645d3a7…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8151320c747efb22d…

Impacted products

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Version

Linux

Affected: 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 , < 79300ff532bccbbf654992c7c0863b49a6c3973c (git)
Affected: 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 , < cf0a88124e357bffda487cbf3cb612bb97eb97e4 (git)
Affected: 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 , < b00219888c11519ef75d988fa8a780da68ff568e (git)
Affected: 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 , < 908094681f645d3a78e18ef90561a97029e2df7b (git)
Affected: 0db89fa243e5edc5de38c88b369e4c3755c5fb74 , < 8151320c747efb22d30b035af989fed0d502176e (git)

Linux

Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.149 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.103 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.44 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.4 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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