# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98374"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-07T13:01:48.600Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:26.132Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98374"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98374.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98374"
title: "tcp: fix use-after-free of retransmit_skb_hint in tcp_send_synack()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: fix use-after-free of retransmit_skb_hint in tcp_send_synack()\n\nWhen tcp_send_synack() replaces the cloned SYN skb at the head of the\nretransmit queue with a copy, it frees the original with\ntcp_rtx_queue_unlink_and_free() and only repairs tp-\u003ehighest_sack.\ntp-\u003eretransmit_skb_hint keeps pointing at the freed\nskbuff_fclone_cache object.\n\nThe dangling hint is read in tcp_verify_retransmit_hint() and used as\nthe root of the rbtree walk in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue().  An\nunprivileged TFO client (sendmsg(MSG_FASTOPEN)) can arm the hint with\nan attacker-supplied ICMP fragmentation-needed message, after which a\nsimultaneous open frees the armed SYN skb:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)\n  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800604d928 by task swapper/1/0\n  Call Trace:\n   tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)\n   tcp_simple_retransmit (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3158)\n   tcp_v4_err (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:587)\n\nSync the hint to the copy."
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