1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c b/src/lib/libcrypto/x509/x509_utl.c
index 0fa6ea6d54..47b25fe6c4 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 1.2 2020/09/13 15:06:17 beck Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: x509_utl.c,v 1.3 2022/05/20 07:58:54 tb Exp $ */
 /* Written by Dr Stephen N Henson (steve@openssl.org) for the OpenSSL
  * project.
  */
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ do_check_string(ASN1_STRING *a, int cmp_type, equal_fn equal,
                         rv = -1;
         } else {
                 int astrlen;
-                unsigned char *astr;
+                unsigned char *astr = NULL;
                 astrlen = ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(&astr, a);
                 if (astrlen < 0)
                         return -1;