diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index b53fa37e..4c9f00d7 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -9604,7 +9604,8 @@ xmlDOMWrapCloneNode(xmlDOMWrapCtxtPtr ctxt,
 		/*
 		* Attributes (xmlAttr).
 		*/
-		clone = (xmlNodePtr) xmlMalloc(sizeof(xmlAttr));
+                /* Use xmlRealloc to avoid -Warray-bounds warning */
+		clone = (xmlNodePtr) xmlRealloc(NULL, sizeof(xmlAttr));
 		if (clone == NULL) {
 		    xmlTreeErrMemory("xmlDOMWrapCloneNode(): allocating an attr-node");
 		    goto internal_error;