CVE-2026-16473A flaw was found in the sbc library (BlueZ SBC codec).
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A flaw was found in the sbc library (BlueZ SBC codec). An off-by-one error in the SBC frame decoder allows a crafted audio payload to trigger a one-byte heap out-of-bounds read. This could allow an adjacent attacker streaming Bluetooth audio to read a single byte of adjacent heap memory.
- CVSS
- 4.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-125
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
No affected products are listed yet.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16473
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503650
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/sbc.git
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bluetooth/1660735014.5089519.1785359719739@mail.yahoo.com/
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