CVE-2026-98374

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

tcp: fix use-after-free of retransmit_skb_hint in tcp_send_synack()

When tcp_send_synack() replaces the cloned SYN skb at the head of the
retransmit queue with a copy, it frees the original with
tcp_rtx_queue_unlink_and_free() and only repairs tp->highest_sack.
tp->retransmit_skb_hint keeps pointing at the freed
skbuff_fclone_cache object.

The dangling hint is read in tcp_verify_retransmit_hint() and used as
the root of the rbtree walk in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue().  An
unprivileged TFO client (sendmsg(MSG_FASTOPEN)) can arm the hint with
an attacker-supplied ICMP fragmentation-needed message, after which a
simultaneous open frees the armed SYN skb:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800604d928 by task swapper/1/0
  Call Trace:
   tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)
   tcp_simple_retransmit (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3158)
   tcp_v4_err (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:587)

Sync the hint to the copy.