diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ee43878..b3695d8 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: rlas
 Type: Package
 Title: Read and Write 'las' and 'laz' Binary File Formats Used for Remote Sensing Data
-Version: 1.5.2
+Version: 1.5.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jean-Romain", "Roussel", email = "jean-romain.roussel.1@ulaval.ca", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph")),
     person("Florian", "De Boissieu", email = "", role = c("aut", "ctb"), comment = "Enable the support of .lax file and extra byte attributes"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 0f1e06a..5324756 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+### rlas v1.5.3
+
+- Fix gcc-asan AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on CRAN when reading las/laz with extrabytes attributes.
+- Fix warning: array subscript 32 is outside array bounds of ‘const char [2]’ [-Warray-bounds] 
+
 ### rlas v1.5.2
 
 - Fix gcc-asan AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on CRAN when reading las/laz with extrabytes attributes.
diff --git a/src/readheader.cpp b/src/readheader.cpp
index 8022836..cc4d4d4 100644
--- a/src/readheader.cpp
+++ b/src/readheader.cpp
@@ -364,24 +364,15 @@ List vlrsreader(LASheader* lasheader)
                 }
               }
 
-              // Fix #53 >>>>
-              // The if else is only a hack to avoid USBAN-ASAN error on CRAN
-              // because I don't know how to fix it
+              // Fix #53
               int len = 0 ; while(len < 32 && attemp.description[len] != '\0') len++;
+              std::string desc;
+              desc.resize(len);
+              memcpy(&desc[0], &attemp.description, len);
 
-              if (len == 32)
-              {
-                std::string desc("\0", len);
-                memcpy(&desc[0], &attemp.description, len);
-                ExtraByte.push_back(desc);
-              }
-              else
-              {
-                ExtraByte.push_back(attemp.description);
-              }
-              // <<<<<<
-
+              ExtraByte.push_back(desc);
               ExtraBytenames.push_back("description");
+
               ExtraByte.names() = ExtraBytenames;
               ExtraBytes.push_back(ExtraByte);
               ExtraBytesnames.push_back(attemp.name);