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GHSA-9JRH-5PWJ-WFMP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-13 18:30 – Updated: 2026-05-13 18:30

Details

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

Severity

5.1 (Medium)


                  
                    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

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CVE-2026-44931 (GCVE-0-2026-44931)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 08:30 – Updated: 2026-05-13 10:48

Title

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

Summary

Severity

5.1 (Medium)


                        
                          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

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

suse

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://security.opensuse.org/2026/05/11/malconte…
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-202…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
gnome	malcontent	Affected: 0.14 , < unknown (custom)

Credits

Matthias Gerstner of SUSE

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GHSA-9JRH-5PWJ-WFMP

CVE-2026-44931 (GCVE-0-2026-44931)

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