CVE-2026-16473 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 21.07.2026 Published: 22.07.2026 Updated: 22.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Versions Default: affected

Workarounds

There is no practical mitigation short of disabling Bluetooth A2DP audio decoding entirely. The SBC codec is mandatory for A2DP and the decode path is invoked automatically on incoming Bluetooth audio streams.

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Oguzhan Akkaya for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Out-of-bounds Read CWE