diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index e78bd62e9..a4b01e86f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ Don Brown
 Don Ferguson
 Don Jeffery
 Drew Sudell
+Earl Hood
 Edison Guo
 Eduard Wirch
 Edwin Woudt
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 9fb145468..db8f88f78 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
 Fixed bugs:
 -----------
 
+ * ZipOutputStream could cause an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when
+   adding entries with comments.  This never happens when using Ant as
+   a build tool but may affect users using Ant's zip package as a
+   library.
+
 Other changes:
 --------------
 
diff --git a/contributors.xml b/contributors.xml
index 7ea115e35..3cdc06ea4 100644
--- a/contributors.xml
+++ b/contributors.xml
@@ -463,6 +463,10 @@
     <first>Drew</first>
     <last>Sudell</last>
   </name>
+  <name>
+    <first>Earl</first>
+    <last>Hood</last>
+  </name>
   <name>
     <first>Edison</first>
     <last>Guo</last>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/zip/ZipOutputStream.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/zip/ZipOutputStream.java
index 261c717ec..0b4f5f902 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/zip/ZipOutputStream.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/zip/ZipOutputStream.java
@@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ public class ZipOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream {
         int extraStart = CFH_FILENAME_OFFSET + nameLen;
         System.arraycopy(extra, 0, buf, extraStart, extra.length);
 
-        int commentStart = extraStart + commentLen;
+        int commentStart = extraStart + extra.length;
 
         // file comment
         System.arraycopy(commentB.array(), commentB.arrayOffset(), buf, commentStart, commentLen);