CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-97939

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 25, 2026Sources checked Nov 12, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-97939. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Nov 7, 2026

Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

6.6.161.1-1

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-97939?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipmr: account multicast table and route memory

A netadmin in a user+net namespace can create many IPv4 and IPv6 multicast routing tables with MRT_TABLE and MRT6_TABLE. Each unseen id allocates an mr_table via the shared mr_table_alloc(), links it into the per-net list, and leaves it until netns teardown.

Those objects were not charged to memcg, so the host unreclaimable slab grows with the table count.

Account mr_table allocations with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT and mark the IPv4/IPv6 MFC caches SLAB_ACCOUNT. This matches the established handling of IP addresses, routes and alternate interface names.

Unresolved MFC entries are still allocated from softIRQ with GFP_ATOMIC and are not charged. They expire after 10 seconds and are bounded by the socket receive queue; see commit 0079ad8e8dc3 ("ipmr: remove hard code cache_resolve_queue_len limit").

Source: NVD