UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44931
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-44931
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44931.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44931
- Upstream
- Published
- 2026-05-13T13:01:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-06-09T13:00:19.943909276Z
- Severity
-
- 5.1 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
- Ubuntu - medium
- Summary
- [none]
- 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
- References
Affected packages
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS / malcontent
Package
- Name
- malcontent
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/malcontent?arch=source&distro=resolute
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
-
Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Affected versions
0.*
0.13.0-1ubuntu2
0.13.1-1ubuntu1
0.13.1-1ubuntu2
0.13.1-2ubuntu2
0.14~alpha-0ubuntu5
0.14.0-0ubuntu1
0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1
Ecosystem specific
{
"binaries": [
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "gir1.2-malcontent-0"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "gir1.2-malcontentui-1"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "libmalcontent-0-0"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "libmalcontent-common"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "libmalcontent-ui-1-1"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "libnss-malcontent"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "libpam-malcontent"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "malcontent"
},
{
"binary_version": "0.14.0-0ubuntu1.1",
"binary_name": "malcontent-gui"
}
]
}