diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 22db2104ac404..cd6f7612d6663 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 	  colors (Rob Leslie)
   . Improved thread safety of the gif support (Roman Nemecek, Nuno, Pierre)
 	. Use the dimension of the GIF frame to create the destination image (Pierre)
-	. Load only once the local color map (Pierre)
+	. Load only once the local color map from a GIF data (Pierre)
   . Improved thread safety of the freetype cache (Scott MacVicar, Nuno, Pierre)
+	. imagearc huge CPU usage with large angles (Pierre)
+
 - Upgraded libraries bundled in the Windows distribution. (Edin)
   . c-client (imap) to version 2006e
   . libpq (PostgreSQL) to version 8.2.3
diff --git a/ext/gd/libgd/gd.c b/ext/gd/libgd/gd.c
index 8fae6245fac12..4901594b70c3b 100644
--- a/ext/gd/libgd/gd.c
+++ b/ext/gd/libgd/gd.c
@@ -1645,6 +1645,14 @@ void gdImageFilledArc (gdImagePtr im, int cx, int cy, int w, int h, int s, int e
 	int lx = 0, ly = 0;
 	int fx = 0, fy = 0;
 
+	if (s > 360) {
+		s = s % 360;
+	}
+
+	if (e > 360) {
+		e = e % 360;
+	}
+
 	while (s<0) {
 		s += 360;
 	}