diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/versions.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/versions.rb
index 101addb045..7a4c5cdf4d 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/versions.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/versions.rb
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class Formula
           version = nostdout { Formula.factory(path).version }
           Object.send(:remove_const, Formula.class_s(name))
           version
-        rescue SyntaxError, TypeError
+        rescue SyntaxError, TypeError, NameError, ArgumentError
           # We rescue these so that we can skip bad versions and
           # continue walking the history
           nil