#1142848 sbc: CVE-2026-16473

Package:
src:sbc
Source:
src:sbc
Submitter:
Salvatore Bonaccorso
Date:
2026-07-26 20:15:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1142848#5
Date:
2026-07-26 20:14:21 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for sbc.

CVE-2026-16473[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-16473
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-16473
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503650

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore