diff --git a/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc b/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc
index 5aeb88bee..163b2cd85 100644
--- a/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc
+++ b/libretroshare/src/gxs/rsgxsnetservice.cc
@@ -3876,6 +3876,7 @@ bool RsGxsNetService::decryptSingleNxsItem(const RsNxsEncryptedDataItem *encrypt
     if(decrypted_mem!=NULL)
     {
 	    ditem = RsNxsSerialiser(mServType).deserialise(decrypted_mem,&decrypted_len) ;
+		free(decrypted_mem) ;
 
 	    if(ditem != NULL)
 	    {