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RLSA-2026:57597

Security Mirrored from RHSA-2026:57597
Issued at: 2026-08-21
Updated at: 2026-08-21

Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:57597, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.

Synopsis

Moderate: kbd security update



Description

The kbd packages provide tools for managing console behavior on a Linux system, including the keyboard, screen fonts, virtual terminals, and font files.

Security Fix(es):

* kbd: Local privilege escalation in openvt via incorrect process owner verification allowing passwordless root login (CVE-2026-72693)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.



Affected products

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le Rocky Linux 10 riscv64 Rocky Linux 10 s390x Rocky Linux 10 x86_64

Fixes

2462115

CVEs

CVE-2026-72693

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - BaseOS

kbd-debugsource-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.aarch64.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.aarch64.rpm kbd-debuginfo-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.aarch64.rpm kbd-misc-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-legacy-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.src.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - BaseOS

kbd-debuginfo-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.s390x.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.s390x.rpm kbd-debugsource-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.s390x.rpm kbd-misc-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-legacy-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.src.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - BaseOS

kbd-debuginfo-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.ppc64le.rpm kbd-misc-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-debugsource-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.ppc64le.rpm kbd-legacy-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.src.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - BaseOS

kbd-debuginfo-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.x86_64.rpm kbd-misc-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.x86_64.rpm kbd-legacy-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-debugsource-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.x86_64.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.src.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 riscv64 - BaseOS

kbd-misc-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-legacy-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.noarch.rpm kbd-0:2.6.4-8.el10_2.src.rpm