CVE-2011-0460: Kbd-Project Kbd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The init script in kbd, possibly 1.14.1 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/defkeymap.map.

Affected products

• Kbd-Project Kbd: up to and including 1.14.1; version 0.99 only; version 1.01 only; version 1.03 only; version 1.04 only; version 1.05 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.2 only; version 11.3 only

Published 2014-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.