diff --git a/ci/docker/install-static-patchelf.sh b/ci/docker/install-static-patchelf.sh
index 02a993f..18aa4e5 100755
--- a/ci/docker/install-static-patchelf.sh
+++ b/ci/docker/install-static-patchelf.sh
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ pushd "$BUILD_DIR"
 # fetch source code
 git clone https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf.git .
 
-# cannot use -b since it's not supported in really old versions of git
-git checkout 0.15.0
+# patchelf 0.18 and older may corrupt GNU hash tables when rewriting modern
+# ELF binaries, causing the dynamic loader to crash before the application starts.
+git checkout 0.19.1
 
 # prepare configure script
 ./bootstrap.sh