diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c15bb72d..3e7a5226 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 v3.0.3 - YYYY-MMM-DD (to be released)
 -------------------------------------
 
+ - good practices: Initialize variables before use it
+   [Issue #1889 - Marc Stern]
  - Fix utf-8 character encoding conversion
    [Issue #1794 - @tinselcity, @zimmerle]
  - Adds support for ctl:requestBodyProcessor=URLENCODED
diff --git a/src/utils/acmp.cc b/src/utils/acmp.cc
index 69618f92..8241faaf 100644
--- a/src/utils/acmp.cc
+++ b/src/utils/acmp.cc
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ char *parse_pm_content(const char *op_parm, unsigned short int op_len, const cha
 //    char converted = 0;
     int i, x;
     unsigned char bin = 0, esc = 0, bin_offset = 0;
-    unsigned char bin_parm[3], c = 0;
+    unsigned char c = 0;
+    unsigned char bin_parm[3] = { 0 };
     char *processed = NULL;
 
     content = strdup(op_parm);