diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index 3c873d0e..af621402 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -213,7 +213,11 @@ aprintf (const char *fmt, ...)
           if (size >= FMT_MAX_LENGTH)  /* We have a huge buffer, */
             {                          /* maybe we have some wrong format string? */
               free (str);              /* In this case we must free already allocated memory, */
-              return NULL;             /* and return NULL pointer... */
+              logprintf (LOG_ALWAYS, 
+                         _("%s: aprintf: text buffer is too big (%ld bytes), \
+free already allocated memory and abort.\n"),
+                         exec_name, size);  /* printout a log message */
+              abort ();             /* and abort... */
             }
                                        /* else, we continue to grow our buffer. */
           size <<= 1;                  /* twice the old size */