diff --git a/legacy/ecore/AUTHORS b/legacy/ecore/AUTHORS
index e16e1e8fac..ff9f752f4c 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/AUTHORS
+++ b/legacy/ecore/AUTHORS
@@ -54,3 +54,4 @@ Jérémy Zurcher <jeremy@asynk.ch>
 Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com>
 Seong-ho Cho (DarkCircle) <darkcircle.0426@gmail.com>
 Patryk Kaczmarek <patryk.k@samsung.com>
+Daniel Willmann <d.willmann@samsung.com>
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
index 4d7f47c6df..bc7a925222 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
@@ -970,3 +970,7 @@
 
        * Fix ecore_imf buf in the ibus module where it may segv
        accessing a wrong context handle.
+
+2012-10-02  Daniel Willmann
+
+       * Fix memory allocation size in ecore_thread_feedback()
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/NEWS b/legacy/ecore/NEWS
index 97bb9ff785..efd4455306 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/NEWS
+++ b/legacy/ecore/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Fixes:
     * ecore_file_escape_name() escape taba nd newline right.
     * ecore_x_image_is_argb32_get() returns correctly given endianness.
     * ecore_imf ibus module potential segv fixed.
+    * ecore_thread_feedback() memory allocation and corruption fixed.
 
 Improvements:
 
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore/ecore_thread.c b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore/ecore_thread.c
index 87688ed3f3..5c6880bcbf 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore/ecore_thread.c
+++ b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore/ecore_thread.c
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ ecore_thread_feedback(Ecore_Thread *thread,
         Ecore_Pthread_Message *msg;
         Ecore_Pthread_Notify *notify;
 
-        msg = malloc(sizeof (Ecore_Pthread_Message*));
+        msg = malloc(sizeof (Ecore_Pthread_Message));
         if (!msg) return EINA_FALSE;
         msg->data = data;
         msg->callback = EINA_FALSE;