diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index e78096a603..72196c5a39 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Features
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
 * [#863](https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/pull/863): Fix ARM softfloat/hardfloat detection by modifying armSoftFloat condition in ELFAnalyser. Before this fix a softfloat binary could be misdetected as hardfloat. - [@kunkun26](https://github.com/kunkun26).
+* [#867](https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/issues/867): Fix memory leak in `COMLateBindingObject#getStringProperty` - [@matthiasblaesing](https://github.com/matthiasblaesing).
 
 Release 4.5.0
 =============
diff --git a/contrib/platform/src/com/sun/jna/platform/win32/COM/COMLateBindingObject.java b/contrib/platform/src/com/sun/jna/platform/win32/COM/COMLateBindingObject.java
index 4f76fbb186..5d15e44230 100644
--- a/contrib/platform/src/com/sun/jna/platform/win32/COM/COMLateBindingObject.java
+++ b/contrib/platform/src/com/sun/jna/platform/win32/COM/COMLateBindingObject.java
@@ -217,7 +217,11 @@ protected String getStringProperty(String propertyName) {
         this.oleMethod(OleAuto.DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET, result,
                 this.getIDispatch(), propertyName);
 
-        return result.stringValue();
+        String res = result.stringValue();
+        
+        OleAuto.INSTANCE.VariantClear(result);
+        
+        return res;
     }
 
     /**