diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 296dd48e..3916c435 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Miscellaneous:
   terminal charset, and ELinks 0.12pre5 was the first release that
   supported UTF-8 as the dump charset.)
 * Really retry forever when connection.retries = 0.
+* minor bug 1113: Fix a small memory leak if a mailcap file is malformed.
 * enhancement: Session-specific options.  Any options changed with
   toggle-* actions no longer affect other tabs or other terminals.
 * Do not crash when document.browse.minimum_refresh_time = 0 and
diff --git a/src/mime/backend/mailcap.c b/src/mime/backend/mailcap.c
index 4c13c184..eb186e09 100644
--- a/src/mime/backend/mailcap.c
+++ b/src/mime/backend/mailcap.c
@@ -289,7 +289,11 @@ parse_optional_fields(struct mailcap_entry *entry, unsigned char *line)
 			entry->copiousoutput = 1;
 
 		} else if (!c_strncasecmp(field, "test", 4)) {
-			entry->testcommand = get_mailcap_field_text(field + 4);
+			/* Don't leak memory if a corrupted mailcap
+			 * file has multiple test commands in the same
+			 * line.  */
+			mem_free_set(&entry->testcommand,
+				     get_mailcap_field_text(field + 4));
 			if (!entry->testcommand)
 				return 0;
 
@@ -301,7 +305,8 @@ parse_optional_fields(struct mailcap_entry *entry, unsigned char *line)
 				}
 
 		} else if (!c_strncasecmp(field, "description", 11)) {
-			entry->description = get_mailcap_field_text(field + 11);
+			mem_free_set(&entry->description,
+				     get_mailcap_field_text(field + 11));
 			if (!entry->description)
 				return 0;
 		}