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root has an undefined value, so it won't initialize. The second line of CreateList should be
LIST *root = NULL;
Also, further down there is allocation apparently for the details of the item, but a) the code fails to capture the allocation and save it anywhere, and b) the size of the allocation should be strSize, not the length of the variable itself. There are several ways to fix it, but the most straightforward would be:
newList->str = (char *)malloc(strSize);
if (newList->str == NULL)
The second malloc allocates memory but its return value is not assigned to anything, so that allocated memory is lost.
newList is allocated but not initialized, so using a memcpy to copy memory to newList->str will fail since newList->str points to nothing. Probably you wanted the result of the second malloc to be assigned to newList->str, but you forgot it.