diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 20844f7c..ef6ea7e5 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
+2014-11-19  Darshit Shah  <darnir@gmail.com>
+
+	* utils.c (compile_posix_regex): Fix memory leak due to unfreed regex
+	pointer
+
 2014-11-19  Tim Ruehsen  <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
- 
+
 	* utils.c (random_float, random_number): Use random() and
 	srandom() if available.
 
 	Reported-by: Coverity scanner
 
 2014-11-19  Tim Ruehsen  <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
- 
+
 	* ftp-basic.c (ftp_epsv): Fix loop check
 
 	Reported-by: Coverity scanner
@@ -23,9 +28,9 @@
 	* openssl.c (ssl_check_certificate): Fix memory leak
 
 2014-11-19  Tim Ruehsen  <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
- 
+
 	* gnutls.c (ssl_init): Report load failure of cert files from
-        cert directory only with --debug. Fixes #41331.
+	cert directory only with --debug. Fixes #41331.
 
 2014-11-18  Tim Ruehsen  <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index f40480f6..d82f15c8 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -2310,6 +2310,7 @@ compile_posix_regex (const char *str)
       fprintf (stderr, _("Invalid regular expression %s, %s\n"),
                quote (str), errbuf);
       xfree (errbuf);
+      xfree (regex);
       return NULL;
     }