diff --git a/ssl/statem/statem_srvr.c b/ssl/statem/statem_srvr.c
index 65eeaffe9a..8d6fd1fb2c 100644
--- a/ssl/statem/statem_srvr.c
+++ b/ssl/statem/statem_srvr.c
@@ -3450,20 +3450,51 @@ STACK_OF(SSL_CIPHER) *ssl_bytes_to_cipher_list(SSL *s,
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    if ((skp == NULL) || (*skp == NULL)) {
-        sk = sk_SSL_CIPHER_new_null(); /* change perhaps later */
-        if (sk == NULL) {
-            SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL_BYTES_TO_CIPHER_LIST, ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE);
-            *al = SSL_AD_INTERNAL_ERROR;
-            return NULL;
-        }
-    } else {
-        sk = *skp;
-        sk_SSL_CIPHER_zero(sk);
+    sk = sk_SSL_CIPHER_new_null();
+    if (sk == NULL) {
+        SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL_BYTES_TO_CIPHER_LIST, ERR_R_MALLOC_FAILURE);
+        *al = SSL_AD_INTERNAL_ERROR;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
-    if (!PACKET_memdup(cipher_suites, &s->s3->tmp.ciphers_raw,
-                       &s->s3->tmp.ciphers_rawlen)) {
+    if (sslv2format) {
+        size_t numciphers = PACKET_remaining(cipher_suites) / n;
+        PACKET sslv2ciphers = *cipher_suites;
+        unsigned int leadbyte;
+        unsigned char *raw;
+
+        /*
+         * We store the raw ciphers list in SSLv3+ format so we need to do some
+         * preprocessing to convert the list first. If there are any SSLv2 only
+         * ciphersuites with a non-zero leading byte then we are going to
+         * slightly over allocate because we won't store those. But that isn't a
+         * problem.
+         */
+        raw = s->s3->tmp.ciphers_raw = OPENSSL_malloc(numciphers * n);
+        if (raw == NULL) {
+            *al = SSL_AD_INTERNAL_ERROR;
+            goto err;
+        }
+        for (s->s3->tmp.ciphers_rawlen = 0;
+             PACKET_remaining(&sslv2ciphers) > 0;
+             raw += TLS_CIPHER_LEN) {
+            if (!PACKET_get_1(&sslv2ciphers, &leadbyte)
+                    || (leadbyte == 0
+                        && !PACKET_copy_bytes(&sslv2ciphers, raw,
+                                              TLS_CIPHER_LEN))
+                    || (leadbyte != 0
+                        && !PACKET_forward(&sslv2ciphers, TLS_CIPHER_LEN))) {
+                *al = SSL_AD_INTERNAL_ERROR;
+                OPENSSL_free(raw);
+                s->s3->tmp.ciphers_raw = NULL;
+                s->s3->tmp.ciphers_rawlen = 0;
+                goto err;
+            }
+            if (leadbyte == 0)
+                s->s3->tmp.ciphers_rawlen += TLS_CIPHER_LEN;
+        }
+    } else if (!PACKET_memdup(cipher_suites, &s->s3->tmp.ciphers_raw,
+                           &s->s3->tmp.ciphers_rawlen)) {
         *al = SSL_AD_INTERNAL_ERROR;
         goto err;
     }
@@ -3524,11 +3555,9 @@ STACK_OF(SSL_CIPHER) *ssl_bytes_to_cipher_list(SSL *s,
         goto err;
     }
 
-    if (skp != NULL)
-        *skp = sk;
-    return (sk);
+    *skp = sk;
+    return sk;
  err:
-    if ((skp == NULL) || (*skp == NULL))
-        sk_SSL_CIPHER_free(sk);
+    sk_SSL_CIPHER_free(sk);
     return NULL;
 }