diff --git a/libtiff/tif_open.c b/libtiff/tif_open.c
index f7b7e0f8..3cb53d4e 100644
--- a/libtiff/tif_open.c
+++ b/libtiff/tif_open.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ TIFFClientOpen(
 	if (!readproc || !writeproc || !seekproc || !closeproc || !sizeproc) {
 		TIFFErrorExt(clientdata, module,
 		    "One of the client procedures is NULL pointer.");
+		_TIFFfree(tif);
 		goto bad2;
 	}
 	tif->tif_readproc = readproc;