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Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs - The Hacker News

Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs - The Hacker News

CVE-2026-64600 lets local users overwrite root-owned files on reflink-enabled XFS systems, preserving metadata and persistent root access after reboot

RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access. … [+7085 chars]

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