fix: potential memory leak in merge_patch() (#611)

3 years ago · f50dafc7d0
1 changed files with 1 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/cJSON_Utils.c
+++ b/cJSON_Utils.c
@ -1367,6 +1367,7 @@ static cJSON *merge_patch(cJSON *target, const cJSON * const patch, const cJSON_
            replacement = merge_patch(replace_me, patch_child, case_sensitive);
            if (replacement == NULL)
            {
+                cJSON_Delete(target);
                return NULL;
            }