diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index d356b0193..ba835b93a 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 * Unreleased - Christophe Dumez <chris@qbittorrent.org> - v1.5.6
   - BUGFIX: RSS feed articles can now be displayed using keyboard arrows
   - BUGFIX: RSS feed downloader can only process unread articles now
+  - BUGFIX: Fixed memory leak in RSS parser
 
 * Wed Nov 4 2009 - Christophe Dumez <chris@qbittorrent.org> - v1.5.5
   - BUGFIX: Fixed man page
diff --git a/src/rss.cpp b/src/rss.cpp
index 56e90f284..2a3bfec91 100644
--- a/src/rss.cpp
+++ b/src/rss.cpp
@@ -562,9 +562,13 @@ short RssStream::readDoc(const QDomDocument& doc) {
         else if(property.tagName() == "item") {
           RssItem * item = new RssItem(this, property);
           if(item->isValid()) {
-            bool already_exists = itemAlreadyExists(item->getTitle());
+            QString title = item->getTitle();
+            bool already_exists = itemAlreadyExists(title);
             if(!already_exists) {
-              (*this)[item->getTitle()] = item;
+              (*this)[title] = item;
+            } else {
+              delete item;
+              item = this->value(title);
             }
             if(item->has_attachment()) {
               has_attachments = true;