diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index c19102cf5..137a609e9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Version 1.1.5 to be released
 - Bug #1577: Fixed the bug in CMssqlSchema::compareTableNames() (Qiang)
 - Bug #1592: Fixed the bug that the hidden field generated by CHtml::checkBox may have the same ID as the checkbox. (Qiang)
 - Bug #1615: Fixed the bug that caused CLogFilter::filter() to add context informations when the log was empty (Y!!)
+- Bug #1653: Fixed the bug that in PHP 5.3 CArrayDataProvider will fail due to incorrect parameters sent to array_multisort (Qiang)
 - Bug #1673: Fixed the bug that CDbSchema::getTables() might return null table schemas (Qiang)
 - Bug #1696: Fixed the bug that CJSON and CJavaScript might serialize float numbers into local-dependent strings (Qiang)
 - Bug #1715: Fixed the bug that CActiveDataProvider.sort does not respect table alias set in the query criteria (Qiang)
diff --git a/framework/web/CArrayDataProvider.php b/framework/web/CArrayDataProvider.php
index 65a76a35a..af45f5bdd 100644
--- a/framework/web/CArrayDataProvider.php
+++ b/framework/web/CArrayDataProvider.php
@@ -110,13 +110,19 @@ class CArrayDataProvider extends CDataProvider
 		if(empty($directions))
 			return;
 		$args=array();
+		$dummy=array();
 		foreach($directions as $name=>$descending)
 		{
 			$column=array();
 			foreach($this->rawData as $index=>$data)
 				$column[$index]=is_object($data) ? $data->$name : $data[$name];
-			$args[]=$column;
-			$args[]=$descending ? SORT_DESC : SORT_ASC;
+			$args[]=&$column;
+			$dummy[]=&$column;
+			unset($column);
+			$direction=$descending ? SORT_DESC : SORT_ASC;
+			$args[]=&$direction;
+			$dummy[]=&$direction;
+			unset($direction);
 		}
 		$args[]=&$this->rawData;
 		call_user_func_array('array_multisort', $args);