diff --git a/src/flt_spoe.c b/src/flt_spoe.c
index f20b264..4e48aa95 100644
--- a/src/flt_spoe.c
+++ b/src/flt_spoe.c
@@ -3751,6 +3751,7 @@
 				goto out;
 			}
 			if ((vph->name  = strdup(args[cur_arg])) == NULL) {
+				free(vph);
 				ha_alert("parsing [%s:%d] : out of memory.\n", file, linenum);
 				err_code |= ERR_ALERT | ERR_ABORT;
 				goto out;