Medium severityNVD Advisory· Published May 13, 2026· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2026-44931

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

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References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/11/1nvd
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvd
security.opensuse.org/2026/05/11/malcontent-disk-space-dos.htmlnvd

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