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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-a5859c4a47 critical: firmware updates

fedora
Calendar Grey March 16, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 42 introduces updates to linux-firmware, featuring a range of improvements and corrections for numerous hardware components.
Update to upstream 20250311: amdgpu: many firmware updates qcom: Update gpu firmwares for qcs8300 chipset add firmware for qat_420xx devices amdgpu: DMCUB updates for various ASICs

Summary

This package includes firmware files required for some devices to

operate.

Update Information:

Update to upstream 20250311: amdgpu: many firmware updates qcom: Update gpu firmwares for qcs8300 chipset add firmware for qat_420xx devices amdgpu: DMCUB updates for various ASICs i915: Update Xe3LPD DMC to v2.20 update firmware for MT7920/MT7925 WiFi device mediatek MT7920/MT7925 bluetooth firmware update Update firmware file for Intel BlazarI/BlazarU core intel_vpu: Add firmware for 37xx and 40xx NPUs QCA: Add Bluetooth firmwares for QCA2066 with USB transport QCA: Add two bluetooth firmware nvm files for QCA2066 QCA: Update Bluetooth QCA2066 firmware to 2.1.0-00653 QCA: Update Bluetooth WCN685x 2.1 firmware to 2.1.0-00653 cirrus: cs35l41: Add firmware and tuning for ASUS Commercial/Consumer laptops ASoC: tas2781: Update dsp firmware for Gemtree project xe: Update GUC to v70.40.2 for BMG, LNL cirrus: cs35l41: Add firmware and tunings for CS35L41 driver for Steam Deck ath11k: QCN9074 hw1.0: update to WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-02175-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-2 ath11k: QCA6698AQ h...

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Fedora hardware update upstream update firmware

Change Log

* Tue Mar 11 2025 Peter Robinson - 20250311-1 - Update to 20250311 - amdgpu: many firmware updates - qcom: Update gpu firmwares for qcs8300 chipset - add firmware for qat_420xx devices - amdgpu: DMCUB updates for various ASICs - i915: Update Xe3LPD DMC to v2.20 - update firmware for MT7920/MT7925 WiFi device - mediatek MT7920/MT7925 bluetooth firmware update - Update firmware file for Intel BlazarI/BlazarU core - intel_vpu: Add firmware for 37xx and 40xx NPUs - QCA: Add Bluetooth firmwares for QCA2066 with USB transport - QCA: Add two bluetooth firmware nvm files for QCA2066 - QCA: Update Bluetooth QCA2066 firmware to 2.1.0-00653 - QCA: Update Bluetooth WCN685x 2.1 firmware to 2.1.0-00653 - cirrus: cs35l41: Add firmware and tuning for ASUS Commercial/Consumer laptops - ASoC: tas2781: Update dsp firmware for Gemtree project - xe: Update GUC to v70.40.2 for BMG, LNL - cirrus: cs35l41: Add firmware and tunings for CS35L41 driver for Steam Deck - ath11k: QCN9074 hw1.0: update to WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-02175-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-2 - ath11k: QCA6698AQ hw2.1: update to WLAN.HSP.1.1-04604-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_IOE-1 - ath11k: QCA6698AQ hw2.1: update board-2.bin - rtw89: 8852bt: update fw to v0.29.122.0 and BB parameter to 07 - Update AMD SEV firmware - qca: update WCN3988 firmware - amdgpu: Update ISP FW for isp v4.1.1 - qcom: add firmware for Adreno A225 - cirrus: cs35l56: Add / update firmware for Cirrus CS35L56 for ASUS/Dell/HP/Lenovo laptops - update firmware for en8811h 2.5G ethernet phy - ASoC: tas2781: Change regbin firmwares for single device

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2332762 - CVE-2024-21978 linux-firmware: hw:amd: Improper input validation in SEV-SNP [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332762 [ 2 ] Bug #2332763 - CVE-2024-21978 linux-firmware: hw:amd: Improper input validation in SEV-SNP [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332763 [ 3 ] Bug #2332764 - CVE-2023-31355 linux-firmware: hw:amd: Improper Restriction of Write Operations in SNP Firmware [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332764 [ 4 ] Bug #2332765 - CVE-2023-31355 linux-firmware: hw:amd: Improper Restriction of Write Operations in SNP Firmware [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332765 [ 5 ] Bug #2337005 - Updated Cirrus firmware files for some Lenovo LNL platforms https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2337005

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-a5859c4a47' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: linux-firmware
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 20250311
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://www.kernel.org/
Summary: Firmware files used by the Linux kernel

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Fedora hardware update upstream update firmware

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