diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox-1.13.3-tail.patch b/package/busybox/busybox-1.13.3-tail.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd3abc0e54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox-1.13.3-tail.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -urpN busybox-1.13.3/coreutils/tail.c busybox-1.13.3-tail/coreutils/tail.c
+--- busybox-1.13.3/coreutils/tail.c	2009-02-26 12:47:02.000000000 +0100
++++ busybox-1.13.3-tail/coreutils/tail.c	2009-03-27 03:34:57.000000000 +0100
+@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
+ 	if (argv[1] && (argv[1][0] == '+' || argv[1][0] == '-')
+ 	 && isdigit(argv[1][1])
+ 	) {
+-		count = eat_num(&argv[1][1]);
++		count = eat_num(argv[1]);
+ 		argv++;
+ 		argc--;
+ 	}