diff --git a/ext/curl/interface.c b/ext/curl/interface.c
index 80618674a39..a1c8a1e520c 100644
--- a/ext/curl/interface.c
+++ b/ext/curl/interface.c
@@ -1717,9 +1717,9 @@ static void curl_free_post(void **post)
 
 /* {{{ curl_free_slist
  */
-static void curl_free_slist(void **slist)
+static void curl_free_slist(void *slist)
 {
-	curl_slist_free_all((struct curl_slist *) *slist);
+	curl_slist_free_all(*((struct curl_slist **) slist));
 }
 /* }}} */
 
@@ -1790,9 +1790,11 @@ static void alloc_curl_handle(php_curl **ch)
 	(*ch)->handlers->read->stream = NULL;
 
 	zend_llist_init(&(*ch)->to_free->str,   sizeof(char *),            (llist_dtor_func_t) curl_free_string, 0);
-	zend_llist_init(&(*ch)->to_free->slist, sizeof(struct curl_slist), (llist_dtor_func_t) curl_free_slist,  0);
 	zend_llist_init(&(*ch)->to_free->post,  sizeof(struct HttpPost),   (llist_dtor_func_t) curl_free_post,   0);
 	(*ch)->safe_upload = 1; /* for now, for BC reason we allow unsafe API */
+
+	(*ch)->to_free->slist = emalloc(sizeof(HashTable));
+	zend_hash_init((*ch)->to_free->slist, 4, NULL, curl_free_slist, 0);
 }
 /* }}} */
 
@@ -2043,6 +2045,7 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(curl_copy_handle)
 	}
 #endif
 
+	efree(dupch->to_free->slist);
 	efree(dupch->to_free);
 	dupch->to_free = ch->to_free;
 
@@ -2488,7 +2491,7 @@ string_copy:
 					return 1;
 				}
 			}
-			zend_llist_add_element(&ch->to_free->slist, &slist);
+			zend_hash_index_update(ch->to_free->slist, (ulong) option, &slist, sizeof(struct curl_slist *), NULL);
 
 			error = curl_easy_setopt(ch->cp, option, slist);
 
@@ -3266,8 +3269,9 @@ static void _php_curl_close_ex(php_curl *ch TSRMLS_DC)
 	/* cURL destructors should be invoked only by last curl handle */
 	if (Z_REFCOUNT_P(ch->clone) <= 1) {
 		zend_llist_clean(&ch->to_free->str);
-		zend_llist_clean(&ch->to_free->slist);
 		zend_llist_clean(&ch->to_free->post);
+		zend_hash_destroy(ch->to_free->slist);
+		efree(ch->to_free->slist);
 		efree(ch->to_free);
 		FREE_ZVAL(ch->clone);
 	} else {
diff --git a/ext/curl/php_curl.h b/ext/curl/php_curl.h
index 9e98fe57cdc..c45ed80fc25 100644
--- a/ext/curl/php_curl.h
+++ b/ext/curl/php_curl.h
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ struct _php_curl_send_headers {
 struct _php_curl_free {
 	zend_llist str;
 	zend_llist post;
-	zend_llist slist;
+	HashTable *slist;
 };
 
 typedef struct {
diff --git a/ext/curl/tests/bug65458.phpt b/ext/curl/tests/bug65458.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..99288f24be4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/curl/tests/bug65458.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+--TEST--
+Bug #65458 (curl memory leak)
+--SKIPIF--
+<?php
+if (!extension_loaded('curl')) exit("skip curl extension not loaded");
+?>
+--FILE--
+<?php
+$ch = curl_init();
+$init = memory_get_usage();
+for ($i = 0; $i < 10000; $i++) {
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [ "SOAPAction: getItems" ]);
+}
+
+$preclose = memory_get_usage();
+curl_close($ch);
+
+// This is a slightly tricky heuristic, but basically, we want to ensure
+// $preclose - $init has a delta in the order of bytes, not megabytes. Given
+// the number of iterations in the loop, if we're wasting memory here, we
+// should have megs and megs of extra allocations.
+var_dump(($preclose - $init) < 10000);
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+bool(true)