diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0f62ef13..e417afc2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Dec 12 14:25:46 CET 2005 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* xmlreader.c: Gary Coady pointed a memory leak in
+	  xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml() applied patch fixing #323864
+
 Sat Dec 10 12:08:28 CET 2005 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* HTMLparser.c configure.in parserInternals.c runsuite.c runtest.c
diff --git a/xmlreader.c b/xmlreader.c
index 3fd44f3e..d3e35d45 100644
--- a/xmlreader.c
+++ b/xmlreader.c
@@ -1664,6 +1664,9 @@ xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml(xmlTextReaderPtr reader ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
         xmlBufferFree(buff2);
     }
     resbuf = buff->content;
+    buff->content = NULL;
+
+    xmlBufferFree(buff);
     return resbuf;
 }