diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c33f4e709..42317ac85 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 Daniel (29 January 2005)
+- multi interface: when a request is denied due to "Maximum redirects
+  followed" libcurl leaked the last Location: URL.
+
 - Connect failures with the multi interface was often returned as "connect()
   timed out" even though the reason was different.
 
diff --git a/lib/multi.c b/lib/multi.c
index 62bffec45..f569c281a 100644
--- a/lib/multi.c
+++ b/lib/multi.c
@@ -523,6 +523,10 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_perform(CURLM *multi_handle, int *running_handles)
               easy->state = CURLM_STATE_CONNECT;
               result = CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM;
             }
+            else
+              /* Since we "took it", we are in charge of freeing this on
+                 failure */
+              free(newurl);
           }
           else {
             easy->state = CURLM_STATE_DONE;