From 4ecdeefe4b18662877c7d4f37eb6a1b60dc9db5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Reece H. Dunn" <msclrhd@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:26:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a null pointer dereference in LoadSpectSeq(spect.c).
 [Coverity]

---
 src/libespeak-ng/spect.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libespeak-ng/spect.c b/src/libespeak-ng/spect.c
index 18fcfcf3..6d7c7e71 100644
--- a/src/libespeak-ng/spect.c
+++ b/src/libespeak-ng/spect.c
@@ -304,7 +304,10 @@ espeak_ng_STATUS LoadSpectSeq(SpectSeq *spect, const char *filename)
 
 	fread(&name_len, sizeof(uint32_t), 1, stream);
 	if (name_len > 0) {
-		spect->name = (char *)malloc(name_len);
+		if ((spect->name = (char *)malloc(name_len)) == NULL) {
+			fclose(stream);
+			return ENOMEM;
+		}
 		fread(spect->name, sizeof(char), name_len, stream);
 	} else
 		spect->name = NULL;