diff --git a/libavcodec/wmavoice.c b/libavcodec/wmavoice.c
index c4582f35cc..b500c21e66 100644
--- a/libavcodec/wmavoice.c
+++ b/libavcodec/wmavoice.c
@@ -1033,7 +1033,8 @@ static void aw_parse_coords(WMAVoiceContext *s, GetBitContext *gb,
 static void aw_pulse_set2(WMAVoiceContext *s, GetBitContext *gb,
                           int block_idx, AMRFixed *fcb)
 {
-    uint16_t use_mask[7]; // only 5 are used, rest is padding
+    uint16_t use_mask_mem[9]; // only 5 are used, rest is padding
+    uint16_t *use_mask = use_mask_mem + 2;
     /* in this function, idx is the index in the 80-bit (+ padding) use_mask
      * bit-array. Since use_mask consists of 16-bit values, the lower 4 bits
      * of idx are the position of the bit within a particular item in the
@@ -1065,6 +1066,7 @@ static void aw_pulse_set2(WMAVoiceContext *s, GetBitContext *gb,
     /* aw_pulse_set1() already applies pulses around pulse_off (to be exactly,
      * in the range of [pulse_off, pulse_off + s->aw_pulse_range], and thus
      * we exclude that range from being pulsed again in this function. */
+    memset(&use_mask[-2], 0, 2 * sizeof(use_mask[0]));
     memset( use_mask,   -1, 5 * sizeof(use_mask[0]));
     memset(&use_mask[5], 0, 2 * sizeof(use_mask[0]));
     if (s->aw_n_pulses[block_idx] > 0)