diff --git a/hugin.changes b/hugin.changes
index 193aa07..e2738d3 100644
--- a/hugin.changes
+++ b/hugin.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov  2 12:29:44 UTC 2022 - Paolo Stivanin <info@paolostivanin.com>
+
+- Add xdg-data.patch: fixes bsc#1204546
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Oct 17 07:41:24 UTC 2022 - pgajdos@suse.com
 
diff --git a/hugin.spec b/hugin.spec
index 5cc6d04..2a02737 100644
--- a/hugin.spec
+++ b/hugin.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Group:          Productivity/Graphics/Other
 URL:            http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
 Source:         https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/%{name}/%{name}/%{name}-%{mversion}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch0:         hugin.appdata.patch
+Patch1:         xdg-data.patch
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel
 BuildRequires:  OpenEXR-devel
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 3.1.0
diff --git a/xdg-data.patch b/xdg-data.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91161ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xdg-data.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# HG changeset patch
+# User tmodes
+# Date 1658245150 -7200
+#      Tue Jul 19 17:39:10 2022 +0200
+# Node ID edfddc6070ca6d4223d359fb4b38273a5aed2f2d
+# Parent  490baa16aae6680792d31316be12a75b50236baa
+Fixes crash when environment variable XDG_DATA_HOME is not set
+
+diff -r 490baa16aae6 -r edfddc6070ca src/hugin_base/hugin_utils/utils.cpp
+--- a/src/hugin_base/hugin_utils/utils.cpp	Thu May 26 18:58:52 2022 +0200
++++ b/src/hugin_base/hugin_utils/utils.cpp	Tue Jul 19 17:39:10 2022 +0200
+@@ -472,9 +472,9 @@
+ #else
+ #ifdef USE_XDG_DIRS
+     char *xdgDataDir = getenv("XDG_DATA_HOME");
+-    if (strlen(xdgDataDir) == 0)
++    if (xdgDataDir == NULL || strlen(xdgDataDir) == 0)
+     {
+-        // no XDG_DATA_HOME enviroment variable set
++        // no XDG_DATA_HOME enviroment variable set or empty variable
+         // use $HOME/.local/share instead
+         const  std::string homeDir = GetHomeDir();
+         if (homeDir.empty())