diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 768e2aa..13ab41c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+version 2.73
+            Fix crash at startup when an empty suffix is supplied to
+	    --conf-dir, also trivial memory leak. Thanks to 
+	    Tomas Hozza for spotting this.
+	
+
 version 2.72
             Add ra-advrouter mode, for RFC-3775 mobile IPv6 support.
 
diff --git a/src/option.c b/src/option.c
index 45d8875..b08e98e 100644
--- a/src/option.c
+++ b/src/option.c
@@ -1474,22 +1474,25 @@
 	for (arg = comma; arg; arg = comma) 
 	  {
 	    comma = split(arg);
-	    li = opt_malloc(sizeof(struct list));
-	    if (*arg == '*')
+	    if (strlen(arg) != 0)
 	      {
-		li->next = match_suffix;
-		match_suffix = li;
-		/* Have to copy: buffer is overwritten */
-		li->suffix = opt_string_alloc(arg+1);
+		li = opt_malloc(sizeof(struct list));
+		if (*arg == '*')
+		  {
+		    li->next = match_suffix;
+		    match_suffix = li;
+		    /* Have to copy: buffer is overwritten */
+		    li->suffix = opt_string_alloc(arg+1);
+		  }
+		else
+		  {
+		    li->next = ignore_suffix;
+		    ignore_suffix = li;
+		    /* Have to copy: buffer is overwritten */
+		    li->suffix = opt_string_alloc(arg);
+		  }
 	      }
-	    else
-	      {
-		li->next = ignore_suffix;
-		ignore_suffix = li;
-		/* Have to copy: buffer is overwritten */
-		li->suffix = opt_string_alloc(arg);
-	      }
-	  };
+	  }
 	
 	if (!(dir_stream = opendir(directory)))
 	  die(_("cannot access directory %s: %s"), directory, EC_FILE);
@@ -1555,7 +1558,12 @@
 	    free(ignore_suffix->suffix);
 	    free(ignore_suffix);
 	  }
-	      
+	for(; match_suffix; match_suffix = li)
+	  {
+	    li = match_suffix->next;
+	    free(match_suffix->suffix);
+	    free(match_suffix);
+	  }    
 	break;
       }