From 8c55a67a6d185de7036e39da30561a5c1637d22b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Gustafsson <source@isc.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 05:23:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] null pointer dereference

---
 lib/dns/message.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/dns/message.c b/lib/dns/message.c
index 6f5f86149f..570b312f9b 100644
--- a/lib/dns/message.c
+++ b/lib/dns/message.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ msgblock_internalget(dns_msgblock_t *block, unsigned int sizeof_type)
 {
 	void *ptr;
 
-	if (block->remaining == 0)
+	if (block == NULL || block->remaining == 0)
 		return (NULL);
 
 	block->remaining--;