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CVE-2011-0460

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

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: through 1.14.1; 0.99, 1.01, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.06 (+6)
• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00053.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663898
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00053.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663898

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