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4.3 Medium

CVE-2026-16473 Sbc: sbc: heap out-of-bounds read via crafted sbc audio frame

Description

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 3.1 detail

Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Exploitable from the adjacent network, without an account and without any user action; the impact on data or service is limited.

Attack vector
Adjacent network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Versions not published
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