Package makes system fan go on high speed on my laptop ASUS ROG GL552VW even if cpu is idle

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LAPTOP: ASUS GL552VW
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
KERNEL: 4.4.0-38-generic
RAM: 8 GB
SWAP: 8 GB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU 4 cores @ 2.60GHz
GRAPHICS CARD: Nvidia Geforce GTX 960M

I performed an update of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by using "sudo apt-get upgrade". One of the packages that were updated was "ubuntu-drivers-common", and it was updated from version 1:0.4.17 to 1:0.4.17.2 (note that my system never had version 1:0.4.17.1).

After the next reboot my laptop's system fan went constantly on maximum speed, even if the CPU was nearly idle (according to the System Monitor in Ubuntu) and there were no heavy system load.

The only thing I did to remedy this problem was to downgrade ubuntu-drivers-common to 1:0.4.17 (pay attention to the version number; I did NOT downgrade to 1:0.4.17.1 because the latter version doesn't exist in Ubuntu's default repositories). After the next reboot the problem was gone and the laptop's system fan functioned as normally.

So it's evident that either 1:0.4.17.1 or 1:0.4.17.2 or both (by a short chain of changes) introduced this problem.