Bug 2476980 (CVE-2026-44931) - CVE-2026-44931 malcontent: malcontent: Denial of Service via RecordUsage D-Bus method
Summary: CVE-2026-44931 malcontent: malcontent: Denial of Service via RecordUsage D-Bu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-44931
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2480427
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-05-13 10:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-21 11:39 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-13 10:01:37 UTC 
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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