CVE-2026-16473

mediumCVSS 4.3covered by 1 sourcefirst seen 2026-07-22

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.

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Exploitation outlook

Low exploitation risk0.24% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 16% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Advisory coverage (1)

mediumCVE-2026-16473: A flaw was found in the sbc library (BlueZ SBC codec). An off-by-one error in the SBC frame de…nvd · 2026-07-22

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