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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-16473

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-by...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 sbc

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Debian:13 sbc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 sbc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org