diff --git a/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c b/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
index 21a2d776232..9122e01fb2a 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c
@@ -4052,7 +4052,16 @@ static void lib_link_object(FileData *fd, Main *main)
 				warn = 1;
 				
 				if (ob->pose) {
+					/* we can't call #BKE_pose_free() here because of library linking
+					 * freeing will recurse down into every pose constraints ID pointers
+					 * which are not always valid, so for now free directly and suffer
+					 * some leaked memory rather then crashing immediately
+					 * while bad this _is_ an exceptional case - campbell */
+#if 0
 					BKE_pose_free(ob->pose);
+#else
+					MEM_freeN(ob->pose);
+#endif
 					ob->pose= NULL;
 					ob->mode &= ~OB_MODE_POSE;
 				}
diff --git a/source/blender/compositor/intern/COM_MemoryManagerState.cpp b/source/blender/compositor/intern/COM_MemoryManagerState.cpp
index b40ae146f9e..6098bf15569 100644
--- a/source/blender/compositor/intern/COM_MemoryManagerState.cpp
+++ b/source/blender/compositor/intern/COM_MemoryManagerState.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ MemoryManagerState::~MemoryManagerState()
 			delete buffer;
 		}
 	}
-	delete this->chunkBuffers;
+	delete [] this->chunkBuffers;
 	BLI_mutex_end(&this->mutex);
 }