diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index ae0391ff..730d5b66 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1927,6 +1927,7 @@ M. Kiesel <vdr@continuity.cjb.net>
 
 Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
  for suggesting to remove -fPIC from VDR's and libsi's Makefile
+ for adding a missing variable initialization in cRingBufferLinear::cRingBufferLinear()
 
 Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
  for a patch that was used to implement processing the "frequency list descriptor"
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 5b8430de..6f5600db 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4795,3 +4795,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   actual device isn't used for updating a VPS timer's event as long as other
   free devices are available.
 - Modified rcu.c to better handle RC5 codes.
+- Added a missing variable initialization in cRingBufferLinear::cRingBufferLinear()
+  (thanks to Prakash Punnoor).
diff --git a/ringbuffer.c b/ringbuffer.c
index e00a524f..0633bd37 100644
--- a/ringbuffer.c
+++ b/ringbuffer.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Parts of this file were inspired by the 'ringbuffy.c' from the
  * LinuxDVB driver (see linuxtv.org).
  *
- * $Id: ringbuffer.c 1.23 2005/12/30 15:42:08 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: ringbuffer.c 1.24 2006/06/16 09:32:13 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "ringbuffer.h"
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ cRingBufferLinear::cRingBufferLinear(int Size, int Margin, bool Statistics, cons
 {
   description = Description ? strdup(Description) : NULL;
   tail = head = margin = Margin;
+  gotten = 0;
   buffer = NULL;
   if (Size > 1) { // 'Size - 1' must not be 0!
      if (Margin <= Size / 2) {