diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/CVE-2015-6908.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/CVE-2015-6908.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5db36629475f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/CVE-2015-6908.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-From 6fe51a9ab04fd28bbc171da3cf12f1c1040d6629 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org>
-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:37:32 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] ITS#8240 remove obsolete assert
-
----
- libraries/liblber/io.c |    2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/libraries/liblber/io.c b/libraries/liblber/io.c
-index 85c3e23..c05dcf8 100644
---- a/libraries/liblber/io.c
-+++ b/libraries/liblber/io.c
-@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ done:
- 		return (ber->ber_tag);
- 	}
- 
--	assert( 0 ); /* ber structure is messed up ?*/
-+	/* invalid input */
- 	return LBER_DEFAULT;
- }
- 
--- 
-1.7.10.4
-