CVE-2026-97399 Affecting glibc-locale-base package, versions <2.31-150300.109.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-GLIBCLOCALEBASE-20738198
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed8 Oct 2026

Introduced: 8 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 glibc-locale-base to version 2.31-150300.109.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-locale-base package and not the glibc-locale-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1