diff --git a/fuzzing/corpus/crash-a5b94d95681291f3057eea7f0233c8f1529b2f59 b/fuzzing/corpus/crash-a5b94d95681291f3057eea7f0233c8f1529b2f59
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbab42e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fuzzing/corpus/crash-a5b94d95681291f3057eea7f0233c8f1529b2f59
Binary files differ
diff --git a/libfdt/fdt_check.c b/libfdt/fdt_check.c
index fa410a8..4c02d96 100644
--- a/libfdt/fdt_check.c
+++ b/libfdt/fdt_check.c
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@
 				int len;
 
 				name = fdt_get_name(fdt, offset, &len);
+
+				/* on error NULL is returned with FDT_ERR in len */
+				if (!name)
+					return len;
+
 				if (*name || len)
 					return -FDT_ERR_BADSTRUCTURE;
 			}