diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 4832e059..1ae41541 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -606,6 +606,8 @@ Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
  for making cEIT::cEIT() drop EPG events that have a zero start time or duration
  for reporting an unnecessary OSD draw operation caused by the audio track description
  display in the ST:TNG skin's channel display
+ for suggesting to make CharArray::DataOwnData::assign() in 'libsi' more robust
+ against invalid data
 
 Reinhard Walter Buchner <rw.buchner@freenet.de>
  for adding some satellites to 'sources.conf'
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 0bab4a59..452a506d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4336,3 +4336,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   overflows can be better detected (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg).
 - Checking data size in CaDescriptor::Parse() and LinkageDescriptor::Parse() of
   'libsi' to avoid crashes with invalid data (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg).
+- Made CharArray::DataOwnData::assign() in 'libsi' more robust against invalid
+  data (suggested by Oliver Endriss). Also changed CharArray::DataOwnData::Delete()
+  so that it sets 'size' and 'data' to 0.
diff --git a/libsi/util.c b/libsi/util.c
index bbdf86b2..b0db93e1 100644
--- a/libsi/util.c
+++ b/libsi/util.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
  *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
  *                                                                         *
- *   $Id: util.c 1.6 2006/02/18 10:38:20 kls Exp $
+ *   $Id: util.c 1.7 2006/02/18 11:17:50 kls Exp $
  *                                                                         *
  ***************************************************************************/
 
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ CharArray::DataOwnData::~DataOwnData() {
 
 void CharArray::DataOwnData::assign(const unsigned char*d, int s) {
    Delete();
+   if (!d || s > 100000 || s <= 0) // ultimate plausibility check
+      return;
    size=s;
    unsigned char *newdata=new unsigned char[size];
    memcpy(newdata, d, size);
@@ -127,6 +129,8 @@ void CharArray::DataOwnData::assign(const unsigned char*d, int s) {
 
 void CharArray::DataOwnData::Delete() {
    delete[] data;
+   size=0;
+   data=0;
 }
 
 CharArray::DataForeignData::~DataForeignData() {