diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index ed8ca4fa..5e776738 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -3655,6 +3655,8 @@ J
  for reporting a possible discrepancy of the primary device number in the LSTD and
  PRIM commands
  for adding support for EAC3 audio from other sources
+ for reporting a crash if a pattern timer spawns a timer that uses EPISODE and the
+ event has no short text
 
 Stefan Verse <Verse@amotronics.de>
  for fixing an occasional black screen when switching channels
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 3fcd8e48..31b52c97 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9568,3 +9568,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Implemented "Pattern Timers" (see MANUAL, vdr.1 and vdr.5 for details).
 - Events in the past are no longer marked as having a timer in the Schedules
   menu.
+
+2020-12-29:
+
+- Fixed strreplace() to handle NULL strings (reported by Jürgen Schneider).
diff --git a/tools.c b/tools.c
index 046829f0..88bfad32 100644
--- a/tools.c
+++ b/tools.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.c 5.1 2020/12/26 15:49:01 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.c 5.2 2020/12/29 21:40:29 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tools.h"
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ char *strreplace(char *s, char c1, char c2)
 
 char *strreplace(char *s, const char *s1, const char *s2)
 {
+  if (!s || !s1 || !s2)
+     return s;
   char *p = strstr(s, s1);
   if (p) {
      int of = p - s;