CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-99139

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 28, 2026Sources checked Oct 28, 2026

N/ACVSS not listedScore unavailable

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Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-99139. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Remediation and response

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Vendor revision: Oct 29, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSSUnavailableNo current score collected

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-99139?

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

tcp: fix use-after-free in do_tcp_getsockopt(TCP_CONGESTION)

do_tcp_getsockopt() reads icsk->icsk_ca_ops->name without holding rcu_read_lock(). Since commit 0baf26b0fcd7 ("bpf: tcp: Support tcp_congestion_ops in bpf"), icsk_ca_ops can point to dynamically allocated BPF struct_ops memory that may be freed concurrently via setsockopt(TCP_CONGESTION), leading to a use-after-free.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _copy_to_user+0x37/0x60 Read of size 16 at addr ffff888013505260 by task exploit/149 _copy_to_user+0x37/0x60 do_tcp_getsockopt+0x158a/0x2460 (net/ipv4/tcp.c:4585) tcp_getsockopt+0x91/0xf0 __sys_getsockopt+0xf7/0x170

Fix this by holding rcu_read_lock() around the ca_ops->name access, using READ_ONCE() to load icsk_ca_ops, and copying the name to a stack buffer before releasing the lock. Also annotate the relevant icsk_ca_ops stores with WRITE_ONCE() to fix the accompanying KCSAN data-race issue.

Source: NVD