CVE-2026-44931

Summary

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 Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-770: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

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

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