diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 71aca12a156..d5d2cda7e4b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 ?? ??? 2013, PHP 5.5.3
 
 - Core:
+  . Fixed bug #65470 (Segmentation fault in zend_error() with
+    --enable-dtrace). (Chris Jones)
   . Fixed bug #65225 (PHP_BINARY incorrectly set). (Patrick Allaert)
   . Fixed bug #62692 (PHP fails to build with DTrace). (Chris Jones, Kris Van Hees)
 
diff --git a/Zend/zend.c b/Zend/zend.c
index 89649bf0301..f9069c8e1b5 100644
--- a/Zend/zend.c
+++ b/Zend/zend.c
@@ -1092,17 +1092,19 @@ ZEND_API void zend_error(int type, const char *format, ...) /* {{{ */
 		error_filename = "Unknown";
 	}
 
-	va_start(args, format);
-
 #ifdef HAVE_DTRACE
 	if(DTRACE_ERROR_ENABLED()) {
 		char *dtrace_error_buffer;
+		va_start(args, format);
 		zend_vspprintf(&dtrace_error_buffer, 0, format, args);
 		DTRACE_ERROR(dtrace_error_buffer, (char *)error_filename, error_lineno);
 		efree(dtrace_error_buffer);
+		va_end(args);
 	}
 #endif /* HAVE_DTRACE */
 
+	va_start(args, format);
+
 	/* if we don't have a user defined error handler */
 	if (!EG(user_error_handler)
 		|| !(EG(user_error_handler_error_reporting) & type)