diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5f61c1cd7..3cd3bf835 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2021-04-30  Alexei Podtelezhnikov  <apodtele@gmail.com>
+
+	* src/gzip/ftgzip.c (ft_gzip_alloc): Zero out memory again.
+
 2021-04-27  Alexei Podtelezhnikov  <apodtele@gmail.com>
 
 	[lzw] Preserve decompression stack when relocating to heap.
diff --git a/src/gzip/ftgzip.c b/src/gzip/ftgzip.c
index 064b8f5de..0dc0a6177 100644
--- a/src/gzip/ftgzip.c
+++ b/src/gzip/ftgzip.c
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@
     FT_Pointer  p  = NULL;
 
 
-    (void)FT_QALLOC( p, sz );
+    /* allocate and zero out */
+    (void)FT_ALLOC( p, sz );
     return p;
   }