diff --git a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/classes/uninative.bbclass b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/classes/uninative.bbclass
index 670efa9..1723364 100644
--- a/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/classes/uninative.bbclass
+++ b/import-layers/yocto-poky/meta/classes/uninative.bbclass
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@
                 except FileExistsError:
                     pass
 
+        # ldd output is "ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.23-0ubuntu10) 2.23", extract last option from first line
+        glibcver = subprocess.check_output(["ldd", "--version"]).decode('utf-8').split('\n')[0].split()[-1]
+        if bb.utils.vercmp_string(d.getVar("UNINATIVE_MAXGLIBCVERSION"), glibcver) < 0:
+            raise RuntimeError("Your host glibc verson (%s) is newer than that in uninative (%s). Disabling uninative so that sstate is not corrupted." % (glibcver, d.getVar("UNINATIVE_MAXGLIBCVERSION")))
+
         cmd = d.expand("\
 mkdir -p ${UNINATIVE_STAGING_DIR}-uninative; \
 cd ${UNINATIVE_STAGING_DIR}-uninative; \
@@ -94,6 +99,8 @@
 
         enable_uninative(d)
 
+    except RuntimeError as e:
+        bb.warn(str(e))
     except bb.fetch2.BBFetchException as exc:
         bb.warn("Disabling uninative as unable to fetch uninative tarball: %s" % str(exc))
         bb.warn("To build your own uninative loader, please bitbake uninative-tarball and set UNINATIVE_TARBALL appropriately.")