CVE-2026-97399

One-byte overread in strncasecmp on Power8

At a glance

Severity
LOW 3.7
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
glibc
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

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.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lglibc
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LNVD · 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
The GNU C Library · glibcaffected 2.24 < 2.45

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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