# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72137"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:11.812Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:40:47.767Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72137"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72137.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72137"
title: "xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error\n\nnat_keepalive_send() frees the keepalive skb whenever the IPv4 or IPv6\nsend helper reports an error.\n\nThat cleanup is only correct before the skb is handed to the output\npath. Once ip_build_and_send_pkt() or ip6_xmit() takes ownership, the\nnetworking stack may already have consumed the skb before returning an\nerror, so freeing it again is unsafe.\n\nHandle the pre-handoff failure cases inside nat_keepalive_send_ipv4()\nand nat_keepalive_send_ipv6(), where the caller still owns the skb, and\nkeep nat_keepalive_send() responsible only for family dispatch and the\nunsupported-family cleanup path."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0a4dc7efa825bce60a8da8f7d43c864a159abde"},{"version":"f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b0c4c916f202b8fd13d12afb6af62b385622f81"},{"version":"f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8a7e6a9ff8a4c1f067694ddbd44be67fdf36693"},{"version":"f531d13bdfe3f4f084aaa8acae2cb0f02295f5ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"226f4a490d1a938fc838d8f8c46a4eca864c0d78"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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