diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qimageblitz/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qimageblitz/default.nix
index 5800b562e6b0..1f820b33e811 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qimageblitz/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qimageblitz/default.nix
@@ -7,14 +7,16 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "${pn}-${v}";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/${pn}/${pn}-${v}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "0pnaf3qi7rgkxzs2mssmslb3f9ya4cyx09wzwlis3ppyvf72j0p9";
   };
-  
+
   buildInputs = [ cmake qt4 ];
 
+  patches = [ ./qimageblitz-9999-exec-stack.patch ];
+
   meta = {
     description = "Graphical effect and filter library for KDE4";
     license = "BSD";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qimageblitz/qimageblitz-9999-exec-stack.patch b/pkgs/development/libraries/qimageblitz/qimageblitz-9999-exec-stack.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8692c240f7bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qimageblitz/qimageblitz-9999-exec-stack.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -uar qimageblitz/blitz/asm_scale.S qimageblitz~/blitz/asm_scale.S
+--- qimageblitz-orig/blitz/asm_scale.S	2007-10-17 01:17:57.000000000 +0200
++++ qimageblitz/blitz/asm_scale.S	2007-10-17 01:19:12.000000000 +0200
+@@ -814,3 +814,7 @@
+ SIZE(qimageScale_mmx_AARGBA)
+ 
+ #endif
++#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__ELF__)
++.section .note.GNU-stack,"",%progbits
++#endif
++