diff --git a/libclamav/htmlnorm.c b/libclamav/htmlnorm.c
index 704ffdb95d..cf22c9d025 100644
--- a/libclamav/htmlnorm.c
+++ b/libclamav/htmlnorm.c
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
 #include "clamav_rust.h"
 #include "scanners.h"
 
+extern bool fail_realloc;
+
 #define HTML_STR_LENGTH 1024
 #define MAX_TAG_CONTENTS_LENGTH HTML_STR_LENGTH
 
@@ -370,51 +372,91 @@ void html_tag_arg_add(tag_arguments_t *tags,
                       const char *tag, char *value)
 {
     int len, i;
-    tags->count++;
-    tags->tag = (unsigned char **)cli_max_realloc_or_free(tags->tag,
-                                                          tags->count * sizeof(char *));
-    if (!tags->tag) {
+    int tagCnt = tags->count;
+    int valueCnt = tags->count;
+    int contentCnt = 0;
+    unsigned char ** tmp = NULL;
+
+    static int cnt = 0;
+    cnt++;
+
+#if 0
+    if (cnt > 2) {
+        fail_realloc = true;
+    }
+#endif
+    tmp = (unsigned char **) cli_max_realloc(tags->tag, (tagCnt+1) * sizeof(char *));
+    if (!tmp) {
         goto done;
     }
-    tags->value = (unsigned char **)cli_max_realloc_or_free(tags->value,
-                                                            tags->count * sizeof(char *));
-    if (!tags->value) {
+    tags->tag = tmp;
+    tagCnt++;
+
+#if 0
+    if (cnt > 2) {
+        fail_realloc = true;
+    }
+#endif
+    tmp = (unsigned char **)cli_max_realloc(tags->value, (valueCnt+1) * sizeof(char *));
+    if (!tmp) {
         goto done;
     }
+    tags->value = tmp;
+    valueCnt++;
+
     if (tags->scanContents) {
-        tags->contents = (unsigned char **)cli_max_realloc_or_free(tags->contents,
-                                                                   tags->count * sizeof(*tags->contents));
-        if (!tags->contents) {
+        contentCnt = tags->count;
+#if 0
+    if (cnt > 2) {
+        fail_realloc = true;
+    }
+#endif
+        tmp = (unsigned char **)cli_max_realloc(tags->contents, (contentCnt+1) * sizeof(*tags->contents));
+        if (!tmp) {
             goto done;
         }
-        tags->contents[tags->count - 1] = NULL;
+        tags->contents = tmp;
+        tags->contents[contentCnt] = NULL;
+        contentCnt++;
     }
-    tags->tag[tags->count - 1] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(tag);
+
+    tags->tag[tags->count] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(tag);
     if (value) {
         if (*value == '"') {
-            tags->value[tags->count - 1] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(value + 1);
+    if (cnt > 2) {
+        fail_realloc = true;
+    }
+            tags->value[tags->count] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(value + 1);
+            if (NULL == tags->value[tags->count]) {
+                goto done;
+            }
             len                          = strlen((const char *)value + 1);
             if (len > 0) {
-                tags->value[tags->count - 1][len - 1] = '\0';
+                tags->value[tags->count][len - 1] = '\0';
             }
         } else {
-            tags->value[tags->count - 1] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(value);
+            tags->value[tags->count] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(value);
         }
     } else {
-        tags->value[tags->count - 1] = NULL;
+        tags->value[tags->count] = NULL;
     }
+
+    tags->count++;
     return;
 
 done:
     /* Bad error - can't do 100% recovery */
-    tags->count--;
-    for (i = 0; i < tags->count; i++) {
+    for (i = 0; i < tagCnt; i++) {
         if (tags->tag) {
             free(tags->tag[i]);
         }
+    }
+    for (i = 0; i < valueCnt; i++) {
         if (tags->value) {
             free(tags->value[i]);
         }
+    }
+    for (i = 0; i < contentCnt; i++) {
         if (tags->contents) {
             if (tags->contents[i])
                 free(tags->contents[i]);
@@ -658,12 +700,22 @@ bool html_insert_form_data(const char * const value, form_data_t *tags) {
      * Do NOT use cli_max_realloc_or_free because all the previously malloc'd tag
      * values will be leaked when tag is free'd in the case where realloc fails.
      */
+    static int runCnt = 1;
+    runCnt++;
+#if 0
+    if (runCnt > 3) {
+        fail_realloc = true;
+    }
+#endif
     tmp = cli_max_realloc(tags->urls, cnt * sizeof(unsigned char *));
     if (!tmp) {
         goto done;
     }
     tags->urls = tmp;
 
+    if (runCnt > 2) {
+        fail_realloc = true;
+    }
     tags->urls[tags->count] = cli_safer_strdup(value);
     if (tags->urls[tags->count]) {
         tags->count = cnt;
diff --git a/libclamav/others_common.c b/libclamav/others_common.c
index 60d0179d2d..2ed958d596 100644
--- a/libclamav/others_common.c
+++ b/libclamav/others_common.c
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
 #include "entconv.h"
 #include "clamav_rust.h"
 
+bool fail_realloc = false;
+
 #define MSGBUFSIZ 8192
 
 static bool rand_seeded            = false;
@@ -314,7 +316,12 @@ void *cli_max_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
         return NULL;
     }
 
+    if (fail_realloc){
+        alloc = NULL;
+    } else {
     alloc = realloc(ptr, size);
+    }
+    fail_realloc = false;
 
     if (!alloc) {
         perror("realloc_problem");
@@ -337,6 +344,21 @@ void *cli_max_realloc_or_free(void *ptr, size_t size)
 
     alloc = realloc(ptr, size);
 
+#if 0
+    if (fail_realloc) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s::%d::Forcing realloc to actually fail\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s::%d::ptr   = %p\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, ptr);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s::%d::alloc = %p\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, alloc);
+        free(alloc);
+        if (alloc != ptr){
+            ptr = NULL;
+        }
+        alloc = NULL;
+    }
+    fail_realloc = false;
+
+#endif
+
     if (!alloc) {
         perror("realloc_problem");
         cli_errmsg("cli_max_realloc_or_free(): Can't re-allocate memory to %zu bytes.\n", size);
@@ -361,6 +383,11 @@ char *cli_safer_strdup(const char *s)
         return NULL;
     }
 
+    if (fail_realloc){
+        fail_realloc = false;
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     alloc = strdup(s);
 
     if (!alloc) {