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CVE-2025-39701

kernel: ACPI: pfr_update: Fix the driver update version check

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 5, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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.

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CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-1025 · Comparison Using Wrong Factors