diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 39c1d484f3f..a35589a51b0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fixed bug #81430 (Attribute instantiation leaves dangling pointer).
     (beberlei)
   . Fixed bug GH-7896 (Environment vars may be mangled on Windows). (cmb)
+  . Fixed bug GH-7883 (Segfault when INI file is not readable). (Remi)
 
 - FFI:
   . Fixed bug GH-7867 (FFI::cast() from pointer to array is broken). (cmb,
diff --git a/Zend/zend_stream.c b/Zend/zend_stream.c
index aadc62558e6..ae2c734b09b 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_stream.c
+++ b/Zend/zend_stream.c
@@ -214,7 +214,10 @@ static void zend_file_handle_dtor(zend_file_handle *fh) /* {{{ */
 {
 	switch (fh->type) {
 		case ZEND_HANDLE_FP:
-			fclose(fh->handle.fp);
+			if (fh->handle.fp) {
+				fclose(fh->handle.fp);
+				fh->handle.fp = NULL;
+			}
 			break;
 		case ZEND_HANDLE_STREAM:
 			if (fh->handle.stream.closer && fh->handle.stream.handle) {
diff --git a/main/php_ini.c b/main/php_ini.c
index fd6f3664882..136942896da 100644
--- a/main/php_ini.c
+++ b/main/php_ini.c
@@ -686,8 +686,9 @@ int php_init_config(void)
 					if (VCWD_STAT(ini_file, &sb) == 0) {
 						if (S_ISREG(sb.st_mode)) {
 							zend_file_handle fh;
-							zend_stream_init_fp(&fh, VCWD_FOPEN(ini_file, "r"), ini_file);
-							if (fh.handle.fp) {
+							FILE *file = VCWD_FOPEN(ini_file, "r");
+							if (file) {
+								zend_stream_init_fp(&fh, file, ini_file);
 								if (zend_parse_ini_file(&fh, 1, ZEND_INI_SCANNER_NORMAL, (zend_ini_parser_cb_t) php_ini_parser_cb, &configuration_hash) == SUCCESS) {
 									/* Here, add it to the list of ini files read */
 									l = (int)strlen(ini_file);
@@ -695,8 +696,8 @@ int php_init_config(void)
 									p = estrndup(ini_file, l);
 									zend_llist_add_element(&scanned_ini_list, &p);
 								}
+								zend_destroy_file_handle(&fh);
 							}
-							zend_destroy_file_handle(&fh);
 						}
 					}
 					free(namelist[i]);