diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index f010c5c0..3cea2779 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2678,3 +2678,6 @@ Gerald Dachs <vdr@dachsweb.de>
 
 Juergen Lock <vdr-l@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
  for fixing cUnbufferedFile::Seek() in case it is compiled without USE_FADVISE
+
+Sergiu Dotenco <sergiu.dotenco@googlemail.com>
+ for reporting a missing initialization in sDvbSpuRect
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 6c539e09..317deeaa 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6582,3 +6582,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   behavior was introduced in version 1.5.7.
 - Fixed scaling subtitles in case the OSD size is exactly the same as the display
   size of the subtitles.
+- Added a missing initialization to sDvbSpuRect (reported by Sergiu Dotenco).
diff --git a/dvbspu.h b/dvbspu.h
index 9e33e454..863e4464 100644
--- a/dvbspu.h
+++ b/dvbspu.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  * parts of this file are derived from the OMS program.
  *
- * $Id: dvbspu.h 2.4 2009/12/13 12:07:00 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbspu.h 2.5 2011/03/27 14:50:48 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __DVBSPU_H
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ typedef struct sDvbSpuRect {
     int x1, y1;
     int x2, y2;
 
+    sDvbSpuRect(void) {
+        x1 = y1 = x2 = y2 = 0;
+    };
     int width() const {
         return x2 - x1 + 1;
     };