1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c b/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c
index f7b9c8586d..51c3135bbe 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: x509_utl.c,v 1.11 2023/04/23 11:25:21 tb Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: x509_utl.c,v 1.12 2023/04/23 11:34:57 tb Exp $ */
 /* Written by Dr Stephen N Henson (steve@openssl.org) for the OpenSSL
  * project.
  */
@@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ s2i_ASN1_INTEGER(X509V3_EXT_METHOD *method, const char *value)
                 X509V3error(X509V3_R_INVALID_NULL_VALUE);
                 return NULL;
         }
-        bn = BN_new();
+        if ((bn = BN_new()) == NULL) {
+                X509V3error(ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE);
+                return NULL;
+        }
         if (value[0] == '-') {
                 value++;
                 isneg = 1;