diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 1fa08903..3e57f866 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1265,6 +1265,7 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  debugging, and an implementation of the AlphaBlend() function.
  for storing the original display size when handling DVB subtitles
  for reporting a problem with horizontal scaling of subtitles
+ for fixing a buffer overflow in cFont::Bidi()
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 9590e5d7..c8658e4b 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6592,3 +6592,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added Cancel(3) to ~cTrueColorDemo() in the "osddemo" plugin (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
 - Added a missing font deletion in cTrueColorDemo::Action() in the "osddemo" plugin
   (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
+- Fixed a buffer overflow in cFont::Bidi() (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
diff --git a/font.c b/font.c
index db1bd893..16d1013c 100644
--- a/font.c
+++ b/font.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * BiDi support by Osama Alrawab <alrawab@hotmail.com> @2008 Tripoli-Libya.
  *
- * $Id: font.c 2.7 2011/02/26 12:09:18 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: font.c 2.8 2011/03/28 16:29:51 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "font.h"
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ cString cFont::Bidi(const char *Ltr)
   bool ok = fribidi_log2vis(Logical, RtlLen, &Base, Visual, NULL, NULL, NULL);
   if (ok) {
      fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(Visual, RtlLen, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-     Rtl = MALLOC(char, RtlLen * 4);
+     Rtl = MALLOC(char, RtlLen * 4 + 1);
      fribidi_unicode_to_charset(fribidiCharset, Visual, RtlLen, Rtl);
      }
   free(Logical);