diff --git a/iotop-0.4.3-rootpriv.patch b/iotop-0.4.3-rootpriv.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fa1567
--- /dev/null
+++ b/iotop-0.4.3-rootpriv.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -up iotop-0.4.3/iotop/ui.py.rootpriv iotop-0.4.3/iotop/ui.py
+--- iotop-0.4.3/iotop/ui.py.rootpriv	2011-10-11 16:59:48.204722984 +0200
++++ iotop-0.4.3/iotop/ui.py	2011-10-11 16:59:55.833780660 +0200
+@@ -511,6 +511,10 @@ def main():
+         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
+     except locale.Error:
+         print 'unable to set locale, falling back to the default locale'
++    if os.getuid() != 1:
++        print 'root privileges required'
++        exit(1)
++
+     parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=USAGE, version='iotop ' + VERSION)
+     parser.add_option('-o', '--only', action='store_true',
+                       dest='only', default=False,
diff --git a/iotop.spec b/iotop.spec
index ccbda86..d6038cb 100644
--- a/iotop.spec
+++ b/iotop.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
 Name: iotop
 Version: 0.4.3      
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 Summary: Top like utility for I/O       
 
 Group: Applications/System          
 License: GPLv2        
 URL: http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/            
 Source0: http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/files/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2 
+
+# after CVE-2011-2494 fix, iotop needs root privileges
+Patch1: iotop-0.4.3-rootpriv.patch
+
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 BuildArch: noarch
@@ -16,6 +20,7 @@ Requires: python
       
 %prep
 %setup
+%patch1 -p1 -b .rootpriv
 
 %build
 %{__python} setup.py build
@@ -44,6 +49,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{python_sitelib}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 13 2011 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@redhat.com> 0.4.3-2
+- after CVE-2011-2494 fix, iotop needs root privileges
+
 * Sun Sep 18 2011 Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com> 0.4.3-1
 - New upstream version