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 9 aarch64
Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le
Rocky Linux 9 s390x
Rocky Linux 9 x86_64
Fixes
2462115
CVEs
CVE-2026-72693
Affected packages
Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - BaseOS
kbd-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.aarch64.rpm
kbd-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.src.rpm
kbd-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.aarch64.rpm
kbd-debugsource-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.aarch64.rpm
kbd-legacy-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.noarch.rpm
kbd-misc-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.noarch.rpm
Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - BaseOS
kbd-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm
kbd-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.src.rpm
kbd-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm
kbd-debugsource-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.ppc64le.rpm
kbd-legacy-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.noarch.rpm
kbd-misc-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.noarch.rpm
Rocky Linux 9 s390x - BaseOS
kbd-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.s390x.rpm
kbd-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.src.rpm
kbd-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.s390x.rpm
kbd-debugsource-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.s390x.rpm
kbd-legacy-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.noarch.rpm
kbd-misc-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.noarch.rpm
Rocky Linux 9 x86_64 - BaseOS
kbd-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.x86_64.rpm
kbd-debuginfo-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.x86_64.rpm
kbd-debugsource-0:2.4.0-12.el9_8.x86_64.rpm