diff --git a/editors/e3/e3-gnu-stack.patch b/editors/e3/e3-gnu-stack.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fbf723da4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/editors/e3/e3-gnu-stack.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../e3/e3-gnu-stack.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2013 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+mark the stack as non-executable and disable tiny/crippled elf on 32
+bit linux so that stack can be marked as non-executable on it too
+http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/gnu-stack.xml
+
+this change will slightly increase the size of the e3 binary.
+
+On 32bit x86 the size in bytes reported by stat(1) is:
+- with tiny/crippled elf header:    13283
+- without tiny/crippled elf header: 16880
+
+patch origin: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/e3.git/plain/e3-gnu-stack.patch
+
+diff -u e3-2.8.orig/e3.asm e3-2.8/e3.asm
+--- e3-2.8.orig/e3.asm	2010-05-09 12:16:47.000000000 -0400
++++ e3-2.8/e3.asm	2013-02-22 14:24:46.884384131 -0500
+@@ -6543,3 +6543,13 @@
+ %ifdef CRIPLED_ELF
+  bsssize equ $-bssstart
+ %endif
++
++%ifidn __OUTPUT_FORMAT__,elf
++section .note.GNU-stack noalloc noexec nowrite progbits
++%endif
++%ifidn __OUTPUT_FORMAT__,elf32
++section .note.GNU-stack noalloc noexec nowrite progbits
++%endif
++%ifidn __OUTPUT_FORMAT__,elf64
++section .note.GNU-stack noalloc noexec nowrite progbits
++%endif
+Only in e3-2.8: e3.asm~
+diff -u e3-2.8.orig/Makefile e3-2.8/Makefile
+--- e3-2.8.orig/Makefile	2010-05-27 14:58:59.000000000 -0400
++++ e3-2.8/Makefile	2013-02-22 15:38:57.729605772 -0500
+@@ -38,15 +38,10 @@
+ #---------------- 32 bit LINUX (and perhaps BSD) --
+ 
+ 32:	$(ASOURCES) Makefile
+-ifeq	($(OS),LINUX)
+-	nasm -O2 -f bin -l e3.lst -o e3 e3.asm -DCRIPLED_ELF=1 -D$(OS) -D$(EXMODE) 
+-	chmod +x e3
+-else
+ 	echo $(ASVER)
+ 	nasm -O2 $(AFLAGS) -o e3.o e3.asm -l e3.lst -D$(OS) -D$(EXMODE)
+ 	ld -s -o e3 e3.o
+ 	strip --remove-section .comment e3
+-endif
+ 	ln -sf e3 e3ws
+ 	ln -sf e3 e3em
+ 	ln -sf e3 e3pi