This bug has been fixed upstream in the subversion repository. The attached patch is by Vasil Dimov.
Regards, Simon Taylor
--- wget-1.10.orig/src/ftp.c.orig
+++ wget-1.10/src/ftp.c
@@ -1023,7 +1023,6 @@
err = ftp_response (csock, &respline);
if (err != FTPOK)
{
- xfree (respline);
/* The control connection is decidedly closed. Print the time
only if it hasn't already been printed. */
if (res != -1)
