diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b7472e8950..59320bbb54 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-07-xx
       "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
     - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
       Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
+    - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
+      O_CREAT flag.  Fortify was complaining, and correctly so.  Fixes
+      bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer.  Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
 
 
 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c
index 17962fc723..47d6aecd8c 100644
--- a/src/common/util.c
+++ b/src/common/util.c
@@ -3084,8 +3084,7 @@ finish_daemon(const char *desired_cwd)
     exit(1);
   }
 
-  nullfd = open("/dev/null",
-                O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_APPEND);
+  nullfd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR | O_APPEND);
   if (nullfd < 0) {
     log_err(LD_GENERAL,"/dev/null can't be opened. Exiting.");
     exit(1);