diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a0f448ab6..2333634a4 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
-Gisle (16 October 2004)
+Daniel (16 October 2004)
+- runekl at opoint.com found out (and provided a fix) that libcurl leaked
+  memory for cookies with the "max-age" field set.
 
+Gisle (16 October 2004)
 - Issue 50 in TODO-RELEASE; Added Traian Nicolescu's patches for threaded
   resolver on Windows. Plugged some potential handle and memory leaks.
 
diff --git a/lib/cookie.c b/lib/cookie.c
index 528d88f65..f1750f6d8 100644
--- a/lib/cookie.c
+++ b/lib/cookie.c
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ static void freecookie(struct Cookie *co)
     free(co->name);
   if(co->value)
     free(co->value);
+  if(co->maxage)
+    free(co->maxage);
 
   free(co);
 }