diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b37624538..077eac4f6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Bugfix
      before version numbers
    * Allowed X509 key usage parsing to accept 4 byte values instead of the
      standard 1 byte version sometimes used by Microsoft. (Closes ticket #38)
+   * Fixed incorrect behaviour in case of RSASSA-PSS with a salt length
+     smaller than the hash length. (Closes ticket #41)
 
 = Version 1.0.0 released on 2011-07-27
 Features
diff --git a/library/rsa.c b/library/rsa.c
index 488d17c19..de8e76596 100644
--- a/library/rsa.c
+++ b/library/rsa.c
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ int rsa_pkcs1_verify( rsa_context *ctx,
     unsigned char *p, c;
     unsigned char buf[1024];
 #if defined(POLARSSL_PKCS1_V21)
+    unsigned char result[POLARSSL_MD_MAX_SIZE];
     unsigned char zeros[8];
     unsigned int hlen;
     size_t slen, msb;
@@ -994,9 +995,9 @@ int rsa_pkcs1_verify( rsa_context *ctx,
             md_update( &md_ctx, zeros, 8 );
             md_update( &md_ctx, hash, hashlen );
             md_update( &md_ctx, p, slen );
-            md_finish( &md_ctx, p );
+            md_finish( &md_ctx, result );
 
-            if( memcmp( p, p + slen, hlen ) == 0 )
+            if( memcmp( p + slen, result, hlen ) == 0 )
                 return( 0 );
             else
                 return( POLARSSL_ERR_RSA_VERIFY_FAILED );