RHSA-2026:57610 — Security Advisory

An update for kbd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.