diff --git a/dlls/msxml3/domdoc.c b/dlls/msxml3/domdoc.c
index e081f1a32f..8344f3651b 100644
--- a/dlls/msxml3/domdoc.c
+++ b/dlls/msxml3/domdoc.c
@@ -2140,7 +2140,13 @@ static HRESULT WINAPI domdoc_load(
             case 1:
                 /* Only takes UTF-8 strings.
                  * NOT NULL-terminated. */
-                SafeArrayAccessData(psa, (void**)&str);
+                hr = SafeArrayAccessData(psa, (void**)&str);
+                if (FAILED(hr))
+                {
+                    This->error = hr;
+                    WARN("failed to access array data, 0x%08x\n", hr);
+                    break;
+                }
                 SafeArrayGetUBound(psa, 1, &len);
 
                 if ((xmldoc = doparse(This, str, ++len, XML_CHAR_ENCODING_UTF8)))