tool_operate: return error on strdup() failure #19145
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In src/tool_operate.c inside the Windows safe-search branch (#ifdef CURL_CA_SEARCH_SAFE), the code assigns config->cacert = strdup(cacert); at line 2076 without checking whether strdup returned NULL.
This would allow the code to continue with the wrong value set, causing possible confusion.
Pointed out by ZeroPath