/* for each attribute in the entry... */
                for ( i = 0; attrs[i] != NULL; i++ ) {
                        if ( ( attrs[i]->mod_op & LDAP_MOD_BVALUES) != 0 ) {
+                               int j;
+
+                               if ( attrs[i]->mod_bvalues == NULL ) {
+                                       ld->ld_errno = LDAP_PARAM_ERROR;
+                                       ber_free( ber, 1 );
+                                       return ld->ld_errno;
+                               }
+
+                               for ( j = 0; attrs[i]->mod_bvalues[ j ] != NULL; j++ ) {
+                                       if ( attrs[i]->mod_bvalues[ j ]->bv_val == NULL ) {
+                                               ld->ld_errno = LDAP_PARAM_ERROR;
+                                               ber_free( ber, 1 );
+                                               return ld->ld_errno;
+                                       }
+                               }
+
                                rc = ber_printf( ber, "{s[V]N}", attrs[i]->mod_type,
                                    attrs[i]->mod_bvalues );
+
                        } else {
+                               if ( attrs[i]->mod_values == NULL ) {
+                                       ld->ld_errno = LDAP_PARAM_ERROR;
+                                       ber_free( ber, 1 );
+                                       return ld->ld_errno;
+                               }
+
                                rc = ber_printf( ber, "{s[v]N}", attrs[i]->mod_type,
                                    attrs[i]->mod_values );
                        }