diff --git a/changes/bug27164 b/changes/bug27164
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d04d2f28f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug27164
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (rust):
+    - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after it,
+      accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix on
+      0.3.3.1-alpha.
diff --git a/src/rust/protover/protoset.rs b/src/rust/protover/protoset.rs
index 4afc50edf8..61b21ede98 100644
--- a/src/rust/protover/protoset.rs
+++ b/src/rust/protover/protoset.rs
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ impl FromStr for ProtoSet {
             if p.is_empty() {
                 continue;
             } else if p.contains('-') {
-                let mut pair = p.split('-');
+                let mut pair = p.splitn(2, '-');
 
                 let low  = pair.next().ok_or(ProtoverError::Unparseable)?;
                 let high = pair.next().ok_or(ProtoverError::Unparseable)?;
@@ -538,6 +538,18 @@ mod test {
         assert_eq!(Err(ProtoverError::Unparseable), ProtoSet::from_str("-1"));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_versions_from_str_hyphens() {
+        assert_eq!(Err(ProtoverError::Unparseable), ProtoSet::from_str("--1"));
+        assert_eq!(Err(ProtoverError::Unparseable), ProtoSet::from_str("-1-2"));
+        assert_eq!(Err(ProtoverError::Unparseable), ProtoSet::from_str("1--2"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_versions_from_str_triple() {
+        assert_eq!(Err(ProtoverError::Unparseable), ProtoSet::from_str("1-2-3"));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_versions_from_str_1exclam() {
         assert_eq!(Err(ProtoverError::Unparseable), ProtoSet::from_str("1,!"));