diff --git a/ChangeLog.adoc b/ChangeLog.adoc
index 817251b1d..72a0ee93f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.adoc
+++ b/ChangeLog.adoc
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Bug fixes::
   * irc: fix duplicated channels in autojoin option when autojoin_dynamic is enabled (issue #1795)
   * irc: fix display of TOPIC and QUIT messages with an empty trailing parameter (issue #1797)
   * relay: fix parsing of IRC messages received from clients (issue #1796)
+  * xfer: fix crash when closing DCC chat buffer
 
 [[v3.6]]
 == Version 3.6 (2022-07-10)
diff --git a/src/plugins/xfer/xfer.c b/src/plugins/xfer/xfer.c
index 6be091d88..4c114b81c 100644
--- a/src/plugins/xfer/xfer.c
+++ b/src/plugins/xfer/xfer.c
@@ -965,8 +965,6 @@ xfer_free (struct t_xfer *xfer)
         free (xfer->remote_address);
     if (xfer->remote_address_str)
         free (xfer->remote_address_str);
-    if (xfer->buffer)
-        free (xfer->buffer);
     if (xfer->remote_nick_color)
         free (xfer->remote_nick_color);
     if (xfer->hook_fd)