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