CVE-2026-97399 affecting package glibc 2.38-21
The strncasecmp function in the GNU C Library 2.24 and later optimized for the Power8 architecture may read one byte beyond the input size limit, which may crash a program when that byte is not readable. This condition may happen when the input strings to the strncasecmp function are attacker controlled in an application and they match all the way up to the edge of their page and the neighbouring page is either not mapped or is not readable.
- Products
- glibc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-97399
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2026-97399 affecting package glibc 2.38-21
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 28 Sept 2026, 16:17 UTC
The strncasecmp function in the GNU C Library 2.24 and later optimized for the Power8 architecture may read one byte beyond the input size limit, which may crash a program when that byte is not readable. This condition may happen when the input strings to the strncasecmp function are attacker controlled in an application and they match all the way up to the edge of their page and the neighbouring page is either not mapped or is not readable.
osv:AZL-104976
glibc
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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