diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/2.4.0.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/2.4.0.nix
index d41b4c55f86..f914a112e10 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/2.4.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdal/2.4.0.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "09qgy36z0jc9w05373m4n0vm4j54almdzql6z9p9zr9pdp61syf3";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "CVE-2019-17545.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/8cd2d2eb6327cf782a74dae263ffa6f89f46c93d.patch";
+      stripLen = 1;
+      sha256 = "06h88a659jcqf6ps1m91qy78s6s9krbkwnz28f5qh7032vlp6qpw";
+    })
+  ];
+
   buildInputs = [ unzip libjpeg libtiff libgeotiff libpng proj openssl sqlite
     libspatialite poppler hdf4 qhull giflib expat libxml2 proj ]
   ++ (with pythonPackages; [ python numpy wrapPython ])