diff --git a/gawk-3.1.5-internal.patch b/gawk-3.1.5-internal.patch
index 4177964..a049730 100644
--- a/gawk-3.1.5-internal.patch
+++ b/gawk-3.1.5-internal.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+Sun Jun 18 22:27:25 2006  Arnold D. Robbins  <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+    Repair internal names like /dev/user, /dev/pid, as well as /dev/fd/N,
+    which have been broken for a long time but noone noticed.
+
+    * io.c (is_internal): new macro to check for internal file like `/dev/user'.
+    (spec_setup): Reduce to two parameters, allocate logic is always true.
+    Add IOP_NO_FREE to flag.
+    (pidopen, useropen): Return `IOBUF *' instead of int. Fix
+    logic to test if `iop' parameter is NULL and if so to allocate it.
+    (specfdopen,): Return `IOBUF *' instead of int. Fix
+    logic to test if `iop' parameter is NULL and if so to allocate it.
+    Don't set IOP_NO_FREE in flag.
+    (iop_open): Remove `IOBUF iob' field from `struct internal' and its use
+    and the use of `spec_setup' from the code here. Change the check in the
+    call to the open function to look for NULL.
+    (get_a_record): Use `is_internal' in initial check for filling the
+    buffer to not try to call `read' on internal files. If true, set
+    the IOP_AT_EOF in the flag and return EOF.
+
 --- gawk-3.1.5/io.c.internal	2006-06-21 19:46:59.000000000 +0200
 +++ gawk-3.1.5/io.c	2006-06-21 19:49:54.000000000 +0200
 @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
diff --git a/gawk-3.1.5-syntaxerror.patch b/gawk-3.1.5-syntaxerror.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34742f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gawk-3.1.5-syntaxerror.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Fri Jun 23 15:48:34 2006  Arnold D. Robbins  <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+    * awkgram.y (subn): At end for `do_sprintf' check, verify that lnode is not NULL
+    before using it assign through.
+
+--- gawk-3.1.5/awkgram.y.syntaxerror	2005-07-26 20:07:43.000000000 +0200
++++ gawk-3.1.5/awkgram.y	2006-06-23 17:43:55.000000000 +0200
+@@ -2399,7 +2399,8 @@
+ 	r->subnode = subn;
+ 	if (r->builtin == do_sprintf) {
+ 		count_args(r);
+-		r->lnode->printf_count = r->printf_count; /* hack */
++		if (r->lnode != NULL)	/* r->lnode set from subn. guard against syntax errors & check it's valid */
++			r->lnode->printf_count = r->printf_count; /* hack */
+ 	}
+ 	return r;
+ }
diff --git a/gawk.spec b/gawk.spec
index dbb5071..0bc9f9f 100644
--- a/gawk.spec
+++ b/gawk.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: The GNU version of the awk text processing utility.
 Name: gawk
 Version: 3.1.5
-Release: 7
+Release: 8
 License: GPL
 Group: Applications/Text
 Source0: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-%{version}.tar.bz2
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ Patch3: gawk-3.1.5-fieldwidths.patch
 Patch4:	gawk-3.1.5-binmode.patch
 Patch5: gawk-3.1.5-num2str.patch
 Patch6: gawk-3.1.5-wconcat.patch
+#  fix internal names like /dev/user, /dev/pid, as well as /dev/fd/N
 Patch7: gawk-3.1.5-internal.patch
+# 194214 - gawk coredumps on syntax error
+Patch8: gawk-3.1.5-syntaxerror.patch
 
 %description
 The gawk packages contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing
@@ -35,6 +38,7 @@ considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text.
 %patch5 -p1 -b .num2str
 %patch6 -p1 -b .wconcat
 %patch7 -p1 -b .internal
+%patch8 -p1 -b .syntaxerror
 
 %build
 %configure
@@ -83,6 +87,9 @@ fi
 %{_datadir}/awk
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jun 23 2006 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> 3.1.5-8
+- fix #194214 - gawk coredumps on syntax error (patch by Aharon Robbins)
+
 * Wed Jun 21 2006 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> 3.1.5-7
 - fix internal names like /dev/user, /dev/pid, or /dev/fd/N (patch by Aharon Robbins)