# CVE-2026-101887: BlueALSA bluealsad LC3plus Decoder Division-by-Zero DoS

- Severity: CVSS 2.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-10-01 · Updated: 2026-10-01

## Affected

- arkq bluez-alsa: fixed in 1a84465dd860d1be9dcf62339c6273e9e0632dd2

## Description

BlueALSA (bluez-alsa/bluealsad) contains a division-by-zero vulnerability in the LC3plus sink decoder (a2dp-lc3plus.c, a2dp_lc3plus_dec_thread) that allows a Bluetooth-adjacent attacker to crash the daemon by sending a crafted RTP media header with an attacker-controlled frame count field set to zero. Attackers can establish an A2DP source connection with an LC3plus session negotiated against a victim running bluealsad as an A2DP sink and transmit a non-fragmented LC3plus media header with a zero frame count to trigger a SIGFPE in the decoding thread, causing a denial of service on builds compiled with LC3plus support enabled.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/arkq/bluez-alsa/commit/1a84465dd860d1be9dcf62339c6273e9e0632dd2
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bluealsa-bluealsad-lc3plus-decoder-division-by-zero-dos

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