diff --git a/games-roguelike/stone-soup/files/pyyaml-safe-load.patch b/games-roguelike/stone-soup/files/pyyaml-safe-load.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dfbcdc96e1ad8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games-roguelike/stone-soup/files/pyyaml-safe-load.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- /util/species-gen.py	2019-04-18 23:19:07.444170831 -0500
++++ /util/species-gen.py	2019-04-18 23:20:19.958169533 -0500
+@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
+             continue
+         f_path = os.path.join(args.datadir, f_name)
+         try:
+-            species_spec = yaml.load(open(f_path))
++            species_spec = yaml.safe_load(open(f_path))
+         except yaml.YAMLError as e:
+             print("Failed to load %s: %s" % (f_name, e))
+             sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/games-roguelike/stone-soup/stone-soup-0.23.2.ebuild b/games-roguelike/stone-soup/stone-soup-0.23.2.ebuild
index 97418769c952d..a587c19986870 100644
--- a/games-roguelike/stone-soup/stone-soup-0.23.2.ebuild
+++ b/games-roguelike/stone-soup/stone-soup-0.23.2.ebuild
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}/source
 S_TEST=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}_test/source
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/gitless.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/pyyaml-safe-load.patch
 	"${FILESDIR}"/rltiles-ldflags-libs.patch
 )