CVE-2026-16473 | A flaw was found in the sbc library (BlueZ SBC codec). An of… | CVSS 4.3 MEDIUM

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-16473
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 2026-07-21 14:03 UTC
Published: 2026-07-22 10:07 UTC
Last updated: 2026-07-22 10:07 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read
Vendor / Product: Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

4.3 MEDIUM CVSS 3.1

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

Affected products (4)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	—	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	—	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	—	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	—	—

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-125	cna	Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
4.3	MEDIUM	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References (3)