diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 55437f7d4d..3b836aa937 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+5.2.0-dev.478 | 2023-01-12 09:41:11 +0100
+
+  * fix for crashes when record definitions repeat a field name (Vern Paxson, Corelight)
+
 5.2.0-dev.476 | 2023-01-11 17:00:32 -0800
 
   * CI updates (Christian Kreibich, Corelight)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 4333777ac7..c5ef0d88ed 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.2.0-dev.476
+5.2.0-dev.478
diff --git a/src/Type.cc b/src/Type.cc
index f9857fe9cb..e4dc489ba7 100644
--- a/src/Type.cc
+++ b/src/Type.cc
@@ -1062,22 +1062,25 @@ void RecordType::AddField(unsigned int field, const TypeDecl* td)
 	ASSERT(field == field_inits.size());
 	ASSERT(field == managed_fields.size());
 
-	if ( field_ids.count(td->id) != 0 )
-		{
-		reporter->Error("Duplicate field '%s' found in record definition\n", td->id);
-		return;
-		}
-	else
-		{
-		field_ids.insert(std::string(td->id));
-		}
-
 	managed_fields.push_back(ZVal::IsManagedType(td->type));
 
 	auto init = new FieldInit();
 	init->init_type = FieldInit::R_INIT_NONE;
 
 	init->attrs = td->attrs;
+
+	// We defer error-checking until here so that we can keep field_inits
+	// and managed_fields correctly tracking the associated fields.
+
+	if ( field_ids.count(td->id) != 0 )
+		{
+		reporter->Error("duplicate field '%s' found in record definition", td->id);
+		field_inits.push_back(init);
+		return;
+		}
+
+	field_ids.insert(std::string(td->id));
+
 	auto a = init->attrs;
 
 	auto type = td->type;
@@ -1335,7 +1338,7 @@ void RecordType::Create(std::vector<std::optional<ZVal>>& r) const
 
 	for ( int i = 0; i < n; ++i )
 		{
-		auto& init = field_inits[i];
+		auto* init = field_inits[i];
 
 		ZVal r_i;
 
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-duplicate-fields/.stderr b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-duplicate-fields/.stderr
index 6f006bb79d..01cf21966a 100644
--- a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-duplicate-fields/.stderr
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-duplicate-fields/.stderr
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 ### BTest baseline data generated by btest-diff. Do not edit. Use "btest -U/-u" to update. Requires BTest >= 0.63.
-error in <...>/record-duplicate-fields.zeek, line 7: Duplicate field 'a' found in record definition
-
+error in <...>/record-duplicate-fields.zeek, line 7: duplicate field 'a' found in record definition
+error in <...>/record-duplicate-fields.zeek, line 17: duplicate field 'a' found in record definition
+error in <...>/record-duplicate-fields.zeek, line 23: duplicate field 'a' found in record definition
+error in <...>/record-duplicate-fields.zeek, line 32: duplicate field 'a' found in record definition
+error in <...>/record-duplicate-fields.zeek, line 32: duplicate field 'b' found in record definition
+error in <...>/record-duplicate-fields.zeek, line 32: duplicate field 'a' found in record definition
diff --git a/testing/btest/language/record-duplicate-fields.zeek b/testing/btest/language/record-duplicate-fields.zeek
index 4991572b8e..b2303c9f14 100644
--- a/testing/btest/language/record-duplicate-fields.zeek
+++ b/testing/btest/language/record-duplicate-fields.zeek
@@ -6,8 +6,39 @@ type test: record {
 	a: string &optional;
 };
 
+type r1: record {
+	a: count;
+	b: count;
+};
+
+type r2: record {
+	a: count;
+	a: count;
+};
+
+type r3: record {
+	b: count;
+	a: count;
+	a: count;
+};
+
+type r4: record {
+	a: count;
+	b: count;
+	a: count;
+	b: count;
+	a: count;
+	c: count;
+};
+
+global x1: r1;
+global x2: r2;
+global x3: r3;
+global x4: r4;
+
 event zeek_init()
 	{
 	local a = test($a=5);
 	print a;
+	print x1, x2, x3, x4;
 	}