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.
CVE-2026-16473
Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-22. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.3
- EG Score
- 4.3(medium)
- EG Risk
- 19(Track)EG Risk 19/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity43% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 16%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 22, 2026
Last Modified
July 30, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jul 22, 2026sbc.git - Bluetooth low-complexity, subband codec (SBC) library
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/sbc.git2503650 – (CVE-2026-16473) CVE-2026-16473 sbc: sbc: heap out-of-bounds read via crafted SBC audio frame
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503650Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-16473(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Affected Packages
(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sbc | 1.5-3, 2.0-1, 2.1-1 | — | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sbc | 2.0-1, 2.1-1 | — | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sbc | 2.1-1 | — | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| sbc | 2.1-1 | — | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
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- CVE-1999-0006EG 9.8EPSS p96CRITICAL
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