diff --git a/ext/xml/compat.c b/ext/xml/compat.c
index 80e58fc9c2f6..23e5632cd002 100644
--- a/ext/xml/compat.c
+++ b/ext/xml/compat.c
@@ -78,11 +78,7 @@ _start_element_handler(void *user, const xmlChar *name, const xmlChar **attribut
 		return;
 	}
 
-	qualified_name = xmlStrdup(name);
-
-	parser->h_start_element(parser->user, (const XML_Char *) qualified_name, (const XML_Char **) attributes);
-
-	xmlFree(qualified_name);
+	parser->h_start_element(parser->user, name, (const XML_Char **) attributes);
 }
 
 static void
diff --git a/ext/xml/tests/gh14637.phpt b/ext/xml/tests/gh14637.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f987feb72ad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/xml/tests/gh14637.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+--TEST--
+GH-14637 memory leak under memory limit
+--EXTENSIONS--
+xml
+--INI--
+memory_limit=20M
+--CREDITS--
+YuanchengJiang
+--FILE--
+<?php
+function createParser(bool $huge) {
+    $parser = xml_parser_create();
+    xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_PARSE_HUGE, $huge);
+    xml_set_element_handler($parser, function($parser, $data) {
+    }, function($parser, $data) {
+    });
+    return $parser;
+}
+// Construct XML that is too large to parse without XML_OPTION_PARSE_HUGE
+$long_text = str_repeat("A", 1000 * 1000 * 5 /* 5 MB */);
+$long_xml_head = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><container><$long_text/><$long_text/><second>foo</second>";
+$long_xml_tail = "</container>";
+$parser = createParser(false);
+$ret = xml_parse($parser, $long_xml_head, true);
+echo "ret = $ret (", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($parser)), ")\n";
+$parser = createParser(true);
+$ret = xml_parse($parser, $long_xml_head, false);
+$parser = createParser(true);
+$ret = xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $long_xml_head . $long_xml_tail, $values, $index);
+?>
+--EXPECTF--
+ret = 0 (XML_ERR_NAME_REQUIRED)
+
+Fatal error: Allowed memory size of %d bytes exhausted %s in %s on line %d