diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 6ceeba526..3cf5ed570 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2 January 2013: Wouter
+	- Fix openssl lock free on exit (reported by Robert Fleischman).
+
 20 December 2012: Wouter
 	- Fix unbound-anchor xml parse of entity declarations for safety.
 
diff --git a/util/net_help.c b/util/net_help.c
index d24d77c8a..1a94492e2 100644
--- a/util/net_help.c
+++ b/util/net_help.c
@@ -775,6 +775,7 @@ void ub_openssl_lock_delete(void)
 	for(i=0; i<CRYPTO_num_locks(); i++) {
 		lock_basic_destroy(&ub_openssl_locks[i]);
 	}
+	free(ub_openssl_locks);
 #endif /* OPENSSL_THREADS */
 }