1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index 93d3f89d1..44e86e245 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static char *parse_cmd_args(sed_cmd_t *sed_cmd, char *cmdstr)
                 while(isspace(*cmdstr)) cmdstr++;
                 length = strcspn(cmdstr, semicolon_whitespace);
                 if (length) {
-                        sed_cmd->string = strndup(cmdstr, length);
+                        sed_cmd->string = bb_xstrndup(cmdstr, length);
                         cmdstr += length;
                 }
         }