diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fe594dc0b..2a823e9c7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-??
     - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
       the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not
       rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
+    - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
 
 
 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
diff --git a/contrib/tor-mingw.nsi.in b/contrib/tor-mingw.nsi.in
index 112040024..246320842 100644
--- a/contrib/tor-mingw.nsi.in
+++ b/contrib/tor-mingw.nsi.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 !include "FileFunc.nsh"
 !insertmacro GetParameters
   
-!define VERSION "@VERSION@"
+!define VERSION "0.1.2.18-dev"
 !define INSTALLER "tor-${VERSION}-win32.exe"
 !define WEBSITE "https://www.torproject.org/"
 !define LICENSE "LICENSE"
diff --git a/src/or/routerparse.c b/src/or/routerparse.c
index 5f9be844b..d4a604755 100644
--- a/src/or/routerparse.c
+++ b/src/or/routerparse.c
@@ -240,7 +240,6 @@ router_append_dirobj_signature(char *buf, size_t buf_len, const char *digest,
   i = strlen(buf);
   if (base64_encode(buf+i, buf_len-i, signature, 128) < 0) {
     log_warn(LD_BUG,"couldn't base64-encode signature");
-    tor_free(buf);
     return -1;
   }
 
@@ -1282,6 +1281,7 @@ networkstatus_parse_from_string(const char *s)
     if (!(tok = find_first_by_keyword(tokens, K_CLIENT_VERSIONS)) ||
         tok->n_args<1) {
       log_warn(LD_DIR, "Missing client-versions");
+      goto err;
     }
     ns->client_versions = tok->args[0];
     tok->args[0] = NULL;