diff --git a/package/avm/stress/init_ptr.patch b/package/avm/stress/init_ptr.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4b90cc4b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/avm/stress/init_ptr.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ruN stress-0.18.8/src/stress.c stress-0.18.8-new/src/stress.c
+--- stress-0.18.8/src/stress.c	2005-12-08 16:36:28.000000000 +0000
++++ stress-0.18.8-new/src/stress.c	2006-03-28 09:07:29.000000000 +0000
+@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
+ hogvm (long long bytes, long long stride, long long hang, int keep)
+ {
+   long long i;
+-  char *ptr;
++  char *ptr = 0;
+   int do_malloc = 1;
+ 
+   while (1)
diff --git a/package/avm/stress/stress.desc b/package/avm/stress/stress.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..01a36bf1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/avm/stress/stress.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+
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+
+[I] A tool to impose load on and stress test Unix-like systems.
+
+[T] stress is a tool to impose load on and stress test Unix-like systems.  It
+[T] will impose user-specified amounts of CPU, I/O, RAM, and HDD load and report any
+[T] errors it detects.  It is used for automated stress testing and for debugging
+[T] system components which fail only or more often when under load.  It runs on
+[T] x86, PPC64, and PPC 32 GNU/Linux, Tru64, SPARC Solaris, and more.
+
+[U] http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/
+
+[A] Amos Waterland <awaterl@yahoo.com>
+[M] Andreas V. 'netrunner' Meier <avmeier@web.de>
+
+[C] extra/base
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] 0.18.8
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
+
+[D] 3392835385 stress-0.18.8.tar.gz http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/