From: x2018 <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:12:14 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: openssl: fix a potential memory leak of params.cert
X-Git-Tag: rc-8_18_0-1~262
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22b8a6430dca99b4db7170fd02b2041f538fd1bd;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

openssl: fix a potential memory leak of params.cert

Closes #19560
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diff --git a/lib/vtls/openssl.c b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
index 72ca0f6cb3..9b3ca9b5ea 100644
--- a/lib/vtls/openssl.c
+++ b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
@@ -1214,6 +1214,7 @@ static int engineload(struct Curl_easy *data,
       failf(data, "unable to set client certificate [%s]",
             ossl_strerror(ERR_get_error(), error_buffer,
                           sizeof(error_buffer)));
+      X509_free(params.cert);
       return 0;
     }
     X509_free(params.cert); /* we do not need the handle any more... */