CVE-2025-39701

high

Published 2025-09-05 · Modified 2026-05-12

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CVSS v3

7.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

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. [ rjw: Changelog edits ]

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.153-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.16.5-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.16.5-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.12.48-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`6.1.149`
linux-kernel	6.17	affected
debian	11.0	affected

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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