diff --git a/src/frontend/com_sysinfo.c b/src/frontend/com_sysinfo.c
index 0fdc64b06..41056c5c7 100644
--- a/src/frontend/com_sysinfo.c
+++ b/src/frontend/com_sysinfo.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ tesCreateSystemInfo(TesSystemInfo *info)
     OSVERSIONINFOA version;
     char *versionStr = NULL, *procStr, *freeStr;
     DWORD major, minor;
-    DWORD dwLen;
+    DWORD dwLen = 0;
     HKEY hkBaseCPU;
     LONG lResult;
 
diff --git a/src/frontend/parse.c b/src/frontend/parse.c
index 775dcb12c..3d48768f0 100644
--- a/src/frontend/parse.c
+++ b/src/frontend/parse.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ void db_print_pnode_tree(struct pnode *p, char *print);
 struct pnode *
 ft_getpnames(wordlist *wl, bool check)
 {
-    struct pnode *pn;
+    struct pnode *pn = NULL;
     char *xsbuf, *sbuf;
     int rv;