diff --git a/poppler/SplashOutputDev.cc b/poppler/SplashOutputDev.cc
index 093baa9..3caa6d1 100644
--- a/poppler/SplashOutputDev.cc
+++ b/poppler/SplashOutputDev.cc
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 //
 // Copyright (C) 2005 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
 // Copyright (C) 2006 Stefan Schweizer <genstef@gentoo.org>
-// Copyright (C) 2006-2016 Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>
+// Copyright (C) 2006-2017 Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>
 // Copyright (C) 2006 Krzysztof Kowalczyk <kkowalczyk@gmail.com>
 // Copyright (C) 2006 Scott Turner <scotty1024@mac.com>
 // Copyright (C) 2007 Koji Otani <sho@bbr.jp>
@@ -4020,9 +4020,9 @@
     maskStr->reset();
     maskStr->doGetChars(maskWidth * maskHeight, data);
     maskStr->close();
-    Object *maskDict = new Object();
-    maskDict->initDict(maskStr->getDict());
-    maskStr = new MemStream((char *)data, 0, maskWidth * maskHeight, maskDict);
+    Object maskDict;
+    maskDict.initDict(maskStr->getDict());
+    maskStr = new MemStream((char *)data, 0, maskWidth * maskHeight, &maskDict);
     ((MemStream *) maskStr)->setNeedFree(gTrue);
   }
   imgMaskData.imgStr = new ImageStream(maskStr, maskWidth,