diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 7067c91b..6a173bd8 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -7042,3 +7042,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   the previous value of 25.75 MB/min is taken.
 - No longer using GetFont() (which is not thread safe) in the 'osddemo' plugin.
 - No longer using GetFont() (which is not thread safe) in cSubtitleRegion::UpdateTextData().
+- Fixed a memory leak in cSubtitleRegion::UpdateTextData().
diff --git a/dvbsubtitle.c b/dvbsubtitle.c
index a623df2f..ca3a6929 100644
--- a/dvbsubtitle.c
+++ b/dvbsubtitle.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original author: Marco Schluessler <marco@lordzodiac.de>
  * With some input from the "subtitle plugin" by Pekka Virtanen <pekka.virtanen@sci.fi>
  *
- * $Id: dvbsubtitle.c 2.29 2012/03/13 15:30:47 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbsubtitle.c 2.30 2012/03/13 15:37:03 kls Exp $
  */
 
 
@@ -492,12 +492,12 @@ void cSubtitleRegion::UpdateTextData(cSubtitleClut *Clut)
   for (cSubtitleObject *so = objects.First(); so && palette; so = objects.Next(so)) {
       if (Utf8StrLen(so->TextData()) > 0) {
          cFont *font = cFont::CreateFont(Setup.FontOsd, Setup.FontOsdSize);
-         cBitmap *tmp = new cBitmap(font->Width(so->TextData()), font->Height(), Depth());
+         cBitmap tmp(font->Width(so->TextData()), font->Height(), Depth());
          double factor = (double)lineHeight / font->Height();
-         tmp->DrawText(0, 0, so->TextData(), palette->Color(so->ForegroundPixelCode()), palette->Color(so->BackgroundPixelCode()), font);
-         tmp = tmp->Scaled(factor, factor, true);
-         DrawBitmap(so->X(), so->Y(), *tmp);
-         DELETENULL(tmp);
+         tmp.DrawText(0, 0, so->TextData(), palette->Color(so->ForegroundPixelCode()), palette->Color(so->BackgroundPixelCode()), font);
+         cBitmap *scaled = tmp.Scaled(factor, factor, true);
+         DrawBitmap(so->X(), so->Y(), *scaled);
+         delete scaled;
          delete font;
          }
       }