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Description

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

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-08 | Published 2026-05-13 | Updated 2026-05-13 | Assigner suse




MEDIUM: 5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Default status
unaffected

0.14 (custom) before unknown
affected

Credits

Matthias Gerstner of SUSE finder

References

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

security.opensuse.org/...5/11/malcontent-disk-space-dos.html

bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44931

cve.org (CVE-2026-44931)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-44931)

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