diff --git a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
index dac9d27f66c..c78dcc0596e 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, findXMLCatalogs, writeScriptBin, ruby, bash }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, findXMLCatalogs, writeScriptBin, ruby, bash }:
 
 let
 
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ let
       inherit sha256;
     };
 
+    patches = [(fetchpatch {
+      name = "potential-infinite-template-recursion.patch";
+      url = "https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/docbook-style-xsl.git/"
+          + "plain/docbook-style-xsl-non-recursive-string-subst.patch?id=bf9e5d16fd";
+      sha256 = "1pfb468bsj3j879ip0950waih0r1s6rzfbm2p70glbz0g3903p7h";
+      stripLen = "1";
+    })];
+
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ findXMLCatalogs ];
 
     dontBuild = true;