CVE-2026-44931 — malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API

CVE-2026-44931

malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The newly introduced RecordUsage D-Bus method https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent/-/blob/0.14.0/libmalcontent-timer/child-timer-service.c in malcontent-timerd allows arbitrary users in the system to slowly fill up disk space in /var/lib/malcontent-timerd

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
gnome / malcontent	affected 0.14 before unknown

CWE

CWE-770

References

https://security.opensuse.org/2026/05/11/malcontent-disk-space-dos.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44931

ADP enrichment

CVE

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/11/1

CISA-ADP

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