CVE-2011-0460

MEDIUM 6.3CVE-2011-0460 · Published 16/04/2014 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-0460 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.3) vulnerability affecting kbd (kbd-project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 27.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kbd kbd-project	`= 0.99= 1.01= 1.03= 1.04= 1.05= 1.06= 1.08= 1.10= 1.11= 1.12= 1.13= 1.14≤ 1.14.1`	No fix yet

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.

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