CVE-2026-72137

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

xfrm: nat_keepalive: avoid double free on send error

nat_keepalive_send() frees the keepalive skb whenever the IPv4 or IPv6

send helper reports an error.

That cleanup is only correct before the skb is handed to the output

path. Once ip_build_and_send_pkt() or ip6_xmit() takes ownership, the

networking stack may already have consumed the skb before returning an

error, so freeing it again is unsafe.

Handle the pre-handoff failure cases inside nat_keepalive_send_ipv4()

and nat_keepalive_send_ipv6(), where the caller still owns the skb, and

keep nat_keepalive_send() responsible only for family dispatch and the

unsupported-family cleanup path.