diff --git a/ares/CHANGES b/ares/CHANGES
index cb7e81ecb..fcebe4ea4 100644
--- a/ares/CHANGES
+++ b/ares/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
   Changelog for the c-ares project
 
+* July 14 2007 (Daniel Stenberg)
+
+- Vlad Dinulescu fixed two outstanding valgrind reports.
+
 Version 1.4.0 (June 8, 2007)
 
 * June 4 2007 (Daniel Stenberg)
diff --git a/ares/ares_init.c b/ares/ares_init.c
index f6018c90c..bc6a0ea6b 100644
--- a/ares/ares_init.c
+++ b/ares/ares_init.c
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ static void init_id_key(rc4_key* key,int key_data_len)
 
 short ares__generate_new_id(rc4_key* key)
 {
-  short r;
+  short r=0;
   ares__rc4(key, (unsigned char *)&r, sizeof(r));
   return r;
 }
diff --git a/ares/ares_process.c b/ares/ares_process.c
index 745fe682a..e8b9ef6fa 100644
--- a/ares/ares_process.c
+++ b/ares/ares_process.c
@@ -400,7 +400,8 @@ static void process_timeouts(ares_channel channel, time_t now)
 static void process_answer(ares_channel channel, unsigned char *abuf,
                            int alen, int whichserver, int tcp, time_t now)
 {
-  int id, tc, rcode;
+  int tc, rcode;
+  unsigned short id;
   struct query *query;
 
   /* If there's no room in the answer for a header, we can't do much
diff --git a/ares/ares_query.c b/ares/ares_query.c
index ed32e9288..0cd655709 100644
--- a/ares/ares_query.c
+++ b/ares/ares_query.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ void ares__rc4(rc4_key* key, unsigned char *buffer_ptr, int buffer_len)
 
 static struct query* find_query_by_id(ares_channel channel, int id)
 {
-  int qid;
+  unsigned short qid;
   struct query* q;
   DNS_HEADER_SET_QID(((unsigned char*)&qid), id);