From 9308ea22e8299fb79f4acd0398829cbe37a3fb1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:56:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cookie: remove the temporary file on (all) errors

Fixes #19267
Reported-by: Harry Sintonen
Closes #19268
---
 lib/cookie.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/cookie.c b/lib/cookie.c
index 9b89b7df70..35b252971d 100644
--- a/lib/cookie.c
+++ b/lib/cookie.c
@@ -1595,7 +1595,6 @@ static CURLcode cookie_output(struct Curl_easy *data,
     curlx_fclose(out);
     out = NULL;
     if(tempstore && Curl_rename(tempstore, filename)) {
-      unlink(tempstore);
       error = CURLE_WRITE_ERROR;
       goto error;
     }
@@ -1612,7 +1611,10 @@ static CURLcode cookie_output(struct Curl_easy *data,
 error:
   if(out && !use_stdout)
     curlx_fclose(out);
-  free(tempstore);
+  if(tempstore) {
+    unlink(tempstore);
+    free(tempstore);
+  }
   return error;
 }
 
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2.47.3