CVE-2026-44931

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

CVSS 5.1 MEDIUMEPSS 0.1%CWE-770

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

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

Productos afectados

gnome · malcontent

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Referencias

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44931 https://security.opensuse.org/2026/05/11/malcontent-disk-space-dos.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/11/1