diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index c68f9eb9f18..b8ae14be691 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1590,6 +1590,7 @@ Andi Vajda
 Case Van Horsen
 John Mark Vandenberg
 Kyle VanderBeek
+Eric N. Vander Weele
 Andrew Vant
 Atul Varma
 Dmitry Vasiliev
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 033789099c3..bf8254311e0 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -4823,6 +4823,8 @@ parse_envlist(PyObject* env, Py_ssize_t *envc_ptr)
             PyUnicode_FindChar(key2, '=', 1, PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(key2), 1) != -1)
         {
             PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "illegal environment variable name");
+            Py_DECREF(key2);
+            Py_DECREF(val2);
             goto error;
         }
         keyval = PyUnicode_FromFormat("%U=%U", key2, val2);
@@ -4837,6 +4839,8 @@ parse_envlist(PyObject* env, Py_ssize_t *envc_ptr)
             strchr(PyBytes_AS_STRING(key2) + 1, '=') != NULL)
         {
             PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "illegal environment variable name");
+            Py_DECREF(key2);
+            Py_DECREF(val2);
             goto error;
         }
         keyval = PyBytes_FromFormat("%s=%s", PyBytes_AS_STRING(key2),