diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5f48063187..fda232bbb2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Thu May  4 02:24:16 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 	* array.c (rb_ary_fill): initialize local variables first.  a
 	  patch from Pat Eyler <rubypate at gmail.com>.  [ruby-core:07810]
 
+	* ext/syck/yaml2byte.c (syck_yaml2byte_handler): need to free
+	  type_tag.  a patch from Pat Eyler <rubypate at gmail.com>.
+	  [ruby-core:07808]
+
 Wed May  3 02:12:07 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/socket/socket.c (make_hostent_internal): accept ai_family
diff --git a/ext/syck/yaml2byte.c b/ext/syck/yaml2byte.c
index 61cd8c8eac..821a3cd5b5 100644
--- a/ext/syck/yaml2byte.c
+++ b/ext/syck/yaml2byte.c
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ syck_yaml2byte_handler(p, n)
             strcat( type_tag, "!" );
             strcat( type_tag, n->type_id );
             bytestring_append( val, YAMLBYTE_TRANSFER, type_tag, NULL);
+	    S_FREE(type_tag);
         }
     }
     switch (n->kind)