diff --git a/ext/dom/tests/DOMEntityReference_predefined_free.phpt b/ext/dom/tests/DOMEntityReference_predefined_free.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4b971d83703ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/dom/tests/DOMEntityReference_predefined_free.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+--TEST--
+Freeing of a predefined DOMEntityReference
+--EXTENSIONS--
+dom
+--FILE--
+<?php
+$ref = new DOMEntityReference("amp");
+var_dump($ref);
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+object(DOMEntityReference)#1 (17) {
+  ["nodeName"]=>
+  string(3) "amp"
+  ["nodeValue"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["nodeType"]=>
+  int(5)
+  ["parentNode"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["parentElement"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["childNodes"]=>
+  string(22) "(object value omitted)"
+  ["firstChild"]=>
+  string(22) "(object value omitted)"
+  ["lastChild"]=>
+  string(22) "(object value omitted)"
+  ["previousSibling"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["nextSibling"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["attributes"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["isConnected"]=>
+  bool(false)
+  ["namespaceURI"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["prefix"]=>
+  string(0) ""
+  ["localName"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["baseURI"]=>
+  NULL
+  ["textContent"]=>
+  string(0) ""
+}
diff --git a/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt b/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt
index 3e082611c3583..c049be675be38 100644
--- a/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt
+++ b/ext/dom/tests/delayed_freeing/entity_declaration.phpt
@@ -9,16 +9,30 @@ $doc->loadXML(<<<'XML'
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE books [
 <!ENTITY test "entity is only for test purposes">
+<!ENTITY myimage PUBLIC "-" "mypicture.gif" NDATA GIF>
 ]>
 <container/>
 XML);
-$entity = $doc->doctype->entities[0];
-var_dump($entity->nodeName, $entity->parentNode->nodeName);
+$ref1 = $doc->createEntityReference("test");
+$ref2 = $doc->createEntityReference("myimage");
+$entity1 = $doc->doctype->entities[0];
+$entity2 = $doc->doctype->entities[1];
+if (strcmp($entity1->nodeName, $entity2->nodeName) < 0) {
+    // Entity ordering depends on the addresses
+    [$entity1, $entity2] = [$entity2, $entity1];
+}
+var_dump($entity1->nodeName, $entity1->parentNode->nodeName);
+var_dump($entity2->nodeName, $entity2->parentNode->nodeName);
 $doc->removeChild($doc->doctype);
-var_dump($entity->nodeName, $entity->parentNode);
+var_dump($entity1->nodeName, $entity1->parentNode);
+var_dump($entity2->nodeName, $entity2->parentNode);
 ?>
 --EXPECT--
 string(4) "test"
 string(5) "books"
+string(7) "myimage"
+string(5) "books"
 string(4) "test"
 NULL
+string(7) "myimage"
+NULL
diff --git a/ext/libxml/libxml.c b/ext/libxml/libxml.c
index 526aa296aad1a..e6b34b02bf7c1 100644
--- a/ext/libxml/libxml.c
+++ b/ext/libxml/libxml.c
@@ -206,12 +206,36 @@ static void php_libxml_node_free(xmlNodePtr node)
 			 * dtd is attached to the document. This works around the issue by inspecting the parent directly. */
 			case XML_ENTITY_DECL: {
 				xmlEntityPtr entity = (xmlEntityPtr) node;
-				php_libxml_unlink_entity_decl(entity);
-				if (entity->orig != NULL) {
-					xmlFree((char *) entity->orig);
-					entity->orig = NULL;
+				if (entity->etype != XML_INTERNAL_PREDEFINED_ENTITY) {
+					php_libxml_unlink_entity_decl(entity);
+#if LIBXML_VERSION >= 21200
+					xmlFreeEntity(entity);
+#else
+					if (entity->children != NULL && entity->owner && entity == (xmlEntityPtr) entity->children->parent) {
+						xmlFreeNodeList(entity->children);
+					}
+					xmlDictPtr dict = entity->doc != NULL ? entity->doc->dict : NULL;
+					if (dict == NULL || !xmlDictOwns(dict, entity->name)) {
+						xmlFree((xmlChar *) entity->name);
+					}
+					if (dict == NULL || !xmlDictOwns(dict, entity->ExternalID)) {
+						xmlFree((xmlChar *) entity->ExternalID);
+					}
+					if (dict == NULL || !xmlDictOwns(dict, entity->SystemID)) {
+						xmlFree((xmlChar *) entity->SystemID);
+					}
+					if (dict == NULL || !xmlDictOwns(dict, entity->URI)) {
+						xmlFree((xmlChar *) entity->URI);
+					}
+					if (dict == NULL || !xmlDictOwns(dict, entity->content)) {
+						xmlFree(entity->content);
+					}
+					if (dict == NULL || !xmlDictOwns(dict, entity->orig)) {
+						xmlFree(entity->orig);
+					}
+					xmlFree(entity);
+#endif
 				}
-				xmlFreeNode(node);
 				break;
 			}
 			case XML_NOTATION_NODE: {
@@ -1385,6 +1409,15 @@ PHP_LIBXML_API void php_libxml_node_free_resource(xmlNodePtr node)
 		case XML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
 		case XML_HTML_DOCUMENT_NODE:
 			break;
+		case XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE:
+			/* Entity reference nodes are special: their children point to entity declarations,
+			 * but they don't own the declarations and therefore shouldn't free the children.
+			 * Moreover, there can be N>1 reference nodes for a single entity declarations. */
+			php_libxml_unregister_node(node);
+			if (node->parent == NULL) {
+				php_libxml_node_free(node);
+			}
+			break;
 		default:
 			if (node->parent == NULL || node->type == XML_NAMESPACE_DECL) {
 				php_libxml_node_free_list((xmlNodePtr) node->children);