“Linux XFS” — 17 distilled results

RefluXFS: Critical Linux XFS Privilege Escalation Flaw

A nine-year-old race condition in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem (CVE-2026-64600) allows unprivileged attackers to gain root privileges by overwriting protected files. The vulnerability affects systems with XFS reflink enabled, a default configuration on enterprise Linux distributions including RHEL, Fedora, and Amazon Linux.

Samsung Galaxy S27 redesign rumors and technology updates

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SkillBloat: Token Amplification Attacks via Skill Injection in LLM Coding Agents

21929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills extend coding agents with task-specific instructions, scripts, and resources, but they also create a trusted instruction channel that can be abused beyond conventional security attacks. This paper studies token amplification through skill injection: an economic resource-abuse threat in which a malicious skill causes an agent to consume substantially more tokens than needed for normal task execution.