Don’t know what the 139 exit status means but I’m seeing the same behaviour since I upgraded the Linux kernel for my Debian GNU/Linux stretch system from linux-image-4.7.0.1-amd64 to linux-image-4.8.0-1.amd64. The odd thing is that this only happens with the official centos:6 and centos:6.8 images. The centos:7 image (and the latest images for debian, ubuntu and fedora) work fine.
I tested with docker-engine 1.12.0 and 1.23.0 using docker run -it <image> /bin/bash.