diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-05-23-25-00.bpo-40883.M6sQ-Q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-05-23-25-00.bpo-40883.M6sQ-Q.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ebeb0cc60d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-05-23-25-00.bpo-40883.M6sQ-Q.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix memory leak in when parsing f-strings in the new parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo
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diff --git a/Parser/pegen/parse_string.c b/Parser/pegen/parse_string.c
index e24ecc58d3a..efe82df4765 100644
--- a/Parser/pegen/parse_string.c
+++ b/Parser/pegen/parse_string.c
@@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ fstring_compile_expr(Parser *p, const char *expr_start, const char *expr_end,
 
     struct tok_state* tok = PyTokenizer_FromString(str, 1);
     if (tok == NULL) {
+        PyMem_RawFree(str);
         return NULL;
     }
     Py_INCREF(p->tok->filename);
@@ -629,6 +630,7 @@ fstring_compile_expr(Parser *p, const char *expr_start, const char *expr_end,
     result = expr;
 
 exit:
+    PyMem_RawFree(str);
     _PyPegen_Parser_Free(p2);
     PyTokenizer_Free(tok);
     return result;