diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index 8f8df93141a9..5a16bad72595 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -65,9 +65,8 @@ isdnctrl 2>&1 | grep version | awk \
 showmount --version 2>&1 | grep nfs-utils | awk \
 'NR==1{print "nfs-utils             ", $NF}'
 
-ls -l `ldd /bin/sh | awk '/libc/{print $3}'` | sed \
--e 's/\.so$//' | sed -e 's/>//' | \
-awk -F'[.-]' '{print "Linux C Library        "$(NF-1)"."$NF}'
+echo -n "Linux C Library        "
+sed -n -e '/^.*\/libc-\([^/]*\)\.so$/{s//\1/;p;q}' < /proc/self/maps
 
 ldd -v > /dev/null 2>&1 && ldd -v || ldd --version |head -n 1 | awk \
 'NR==1{print "Dynamic linker (ldd)  ", $NF}'