diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ad1a3e9..a803c0a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -299,6 +299,16 @@ Version 1.8.0
 Version 1.6.16
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+2012-02-28 Fabrice Fontaine <fabrice.fontaine(at)orange.com>
+
+	SF Bug Tracker id 3495280 - Memory leak in ixmlDocument_createElementEx
+
+	Submitted: Fabrice Fontaine ( ffontaine ) - 2012-02-28 04:01:02 PST
+
+	There is a memory leak in ixmlDocument_createElementEx:
+	newElement->tagName is not freed if
+	newElement->n.nodeName = strdup(tagName); returns NULL.
+
 2012-02-27 Fabrice Fontaine <fabrice.fontaine(at)orange.com>
 
 	SF Bug Tracker id 3494865 - Use of non-initialized variable in parser_parse_requestline
diff --git a/ixml/src/document.c b/ixml/src/document.c
index eeec48f..be98383 100644
--- a/ixml/src/document.c
+++ b/ixml/src/document.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Intel Corporation 
  * All rights reserved. 
+ * Copyright (c) 2012 France Telecom All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 
@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ int ixmlDocument_createElementEx(
 	newElement->n.nodeType = eELEMENT_NODE;
 	newElement->n.nodeName = strdup(tagName);
 	if (newElement->n.nodeName == NULL) {
+		free(newElement->tagName);
 		ixmlElement_free(newElement);
 		newElement = NULL;
 		errCode = IXML_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY;