diff --git a/cyrus-sasl-saslauthd.spec b/cyrus-sasl-saslauthd.spec
index d5e62e8..551c0ac 100644
--- a/cyrus-sasl-saslauthd.spec
+++ b/cyrus-sasl-saslauthd.spec
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Patch:          cyrus-sasl.dif
 Patch1:         shared_link_on_ppc.patch
 Patch5:         cyrus-sasl-no_rpath.patch
 Patch6:         cyrus-sasl-lfs.patch
+Patch7:         fix-sasl-header.diff
 PreReq:         %insserv_prereq %fillup_prereq
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ The SQL auxprop plugin supports PostgreSQL and MySQL
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch5 -p1
 %patch6
+%patch7 -p1
 
 %build
 find . -name \*.cvsignore -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf
diff --git a/cyrus-sasl.changes b/cyrus-sasl.changes
index b21879f..2bec3c7 100644
--- a/cyrus-sasl.changes
+++ b/cyrus-sasl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Sep 29 08:11:05 UTC 2013 - tittiatcoke@gmail.com
+
+- Add patch fix-sasl-header.diff to resolve build issues that 
+  are failing due to typedef 'sasl_malloc_t' is initialized.
+  (see gentoo#458870, fedora#906519)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 11 07:16:23 UTC 2013 - jcnengel@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/cyrus-sasl.spec b/cyrus-sasl.spec
index 616b69b..130fb6a 100644
--- a/cyrus-sasl.spec
+++ b/cyrus-sasl.spec
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Patch:          cyrus-sasl.dif
 Patch1:         shared_link_on_ppc.patch
 Patch5:         cyrus-sasl-no_rpath.patch
 Patch6:         cyrus-sasl-lfs.patch
+Patch7:         fix-sasl-header.diff
 PreReq:         %insserv_prereq %fillup_prereq
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ fi
 %patch1
 %patch5 -p1
 %patch6
+%patch7 -p1
 
 %build
 find . -name \*.cvsignore -print0 | xargs -0 rm -fv
diff --git a/fix-sasl-header.diff b/fix-sasl-header.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3529ed4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-sasl-header.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/include/sasl.h	2012-10-12 09:05:48.000000000 -0500
++++ cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/include/sasl.h	2013-01-31 13:21:04.007739327 -0600
+@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ extern "C" {
+  * they must be called before all other SASL functions:
+  */
+ 
++#include <sys/types.h>
++
+ /* memory allocation functions which may optionally be replaced:
+  */
+ typedef void *sasl_malloc_t(size_t);
+