diff --git a/alsa-utils.spec b/alsa-utils.spec
index 17c23ad..bcba99f 100644
--- a/alsa-utils.spec
+++ b/alsa-utils.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Summary: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) utilities
 Name:    alsa-utils
 Version: %{baseversion}%{?fixversion}
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Release: 4%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 Group:   Applications/Multimedia
 URL:     http://www.alsa-project.org/
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Source11: alsactl.conf
 Source20: alsa-restore.service
 Source21: alsa-store.service
 Source22: alsa-state.service
+Patch1:  alsactl-valist.patch
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires: alsa-lib-devel >= %{baseversion}
 BuildRequires: libsamplerate-devel
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ This package contains command line utilities for the Advanced Linux Sound
 Architecture (ALSA).
 
 %prep
+%patch1 -p1 -b .alsactl-valist
 %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}
 
 %build
@@ -114,6 +116,9 @@ if [ -s /etc/asound.state -a ! -s /var/lib/alsa/asound.state ] ; then
 fi
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Dec 29 2013 Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela@redhat.com> - 1.0.27.2-4
+- Fix alsactl crash issue - rhbz#994832
+
 * Sat Aug 03 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.27.2-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/alsactl-valist.patch b/alsactl-valist.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d131ef7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alsactl-valist.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+diff --git a/alsactl/utils.c b/alsactl/utils.c
+index 072c239..b5d183c 100644
+--- a/alsactl/utils.c
++++ b/alsactl/utils.c
+@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ void cerror_(const char *fcn, long line, int cond, const char *fmt, ...)
+ 
+ 	if (!cond && !debugflag)
+ 		return;
++	va_start(ap, fmt);
+ 	if (use_syslog) {
+ 		syslog_(LOG_ERR, fcn, line, fmt, ap);
+ 	} else {
+-		va_start(ap, fmt);
+ 		fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s:%ld: ", command, fcn, line);
+ 		vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap);
+ 		putc('\n', stderr);
+@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ void dbg_(const char *fcn, long line, const char *fmt, ...)
+ 
+ 	if (!debugflag)
+ 		return;
++	va_start(ap, fmt);
+ 	if (use_syslog) {
+ 		syslog_(LOG_DEBUG, fcn, line, fmt, ap);
+ 	} else {
+-		va_start(ap, fmt);
+ 		fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s:%ld: ", command, fcn, line);
+ 		vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap);
+ 		putc('\n', stderr);