diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e2803d6dfc5..c5757ccef95 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fixed bug #65701 (copy() doesn't work when destination filename is created
     by tempnam()). (Boro Sitnikovski)
   . Fixed bug #67072 (Echoing unserialized "SplFileObject" crash). (Anatol)
+  . Fixed bug #67245 (usage of memcpy() with overlapping src and dst in
+    zend_exceptions.c) (backported fix from PHP 5.6; initially committed
+    to wrong branch). (Bob)
 
 - Curl:
   . Fixed bug #64247 (CURLOPT_INFILE doesn't allow reset). (Mike)
diff --git a/Zend/zend_exceptions.c b/Zend/zend_exceptions.c
index 9b7d3689c69..e4570269e3a 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_exceptions.c
+++ b/Zend/zend_exceptions.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ ZEND_METHOD(error_exception, getSeverity)
 
 #define TRACE_ARG_APPEND(vallen)								\
 	*str = (char*)erealloc(*str, *len + 1 + vallen);					\
-	memcpy((*str) + *len - l_added + 1 + vallen, (*str) + *len - l_added + 1, l_added);
+	memmove((*str) + *len - l_added + 1 + vallen, (*str) + *len - l_added + 1, l_added);
 
 /* }}} */