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

Science

Nine-Year-Old Refluxfs Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root On Default Rhel Installs

By The Hacker News

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. Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterp ...Read more