diff --git a/libavformat/srtdec.c b/libavformat/srtdec.c
index 56bd0c43f6..67b245a123 100644
--- a/libavformat/srtdec.c
+++ b/libavformat/srtdec.c
@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ static int srt_read_header(AVFormatContext *s)
     ff_subtitles_queue_finalize(s, &srt->q);
 
 end:
+    if (res < 0)
+        ff_subtitles_queue_clean(&srt->q);
     av_bprint_finalize(&buf, NULL);
     return res;
 }