diff --git a/packages/network/connman/patches/connman-check-null-string-before-passing-it-to-g_strsplit.patch b/packages/network/connman/patches/connman-check-null-string-before-passing-it-to-g_strsplit.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..313747932c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/network/connman/patches/connman-check-null-string-before-passing-it-to-g_strsplit.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff --git a/vpn/vpn-provider.c b/vpn/vpn-provider.c
+index 0336636..40450eb 100644
+--- a/vpn/vpn-provider.c
++++ b/vpn/vpn-provider.c
+@@ -1869,9 +1869,14 @@ static const char *get_string(GHashTable *settings, const char *key)
+ static GSList *parse_user_networks(const char *network_str)
+ {
+ 	GSList *networks = NULL;
+-	char **elems = g_strsplit(network_str, ",", 0);
++	char **elems;
+ 	int i = 0;
+ 
++	if (network_str == NULL)
++		return NULL;
++
++	elems = g_strsplit(network_str, ",", 0);
++
+ 	if (elems == NULL)
+ 		return NULL;
+