Source: glibc X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] Severity: important Tags: security
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for glibc. CVE-2026-97399[0]: | 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. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34683 https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0024 If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-97399 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97399 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
