diff --git a/packages/network/iptables/package.mk b/packages/network/iptables/package.mk
index 69e78419c1..7cfdafe5c8 100644
--- a/packages/network/iptables/package.mk
+++ b/packages/network/iptables/package.mk
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="iptables"
-PKG_VERSION="1.4.19.1"
+PKG_VERSION="1.4.20"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/network/iptables/patches/iptables-1.4.20-buildfix.patch b/packages/network/iptables/patches/iptables-1.4.20-buildfix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..51db4f3423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/network/iptables/patches/iptables-1.4.20-buildfix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur iptables-1.4.20/iptables/Makefile.am iptables-1.4.20.patch/iptables/Makefile.am
+--- iptables-1.4.20/iptables/Makefile.am	2013-08-06 17:48:43.000000000 +0200
++++ iptables-1.4.20.patch/iptables/Makefile.am	2013-09-01 05:30:03.118428151 +0200
+@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
+ v6_sbin_links  = ip6tables ip6tables-restore ip6tables-save
+ endif
+ 
+-iptables-extensions.8: ${srcdir}/iptables-extensions.8.tmpl ../extensions/matches.man ../extensions/targets.man
++iptables-extensions.8: iptables-extensions.8.tmpl ../extensions/matches.man ../extensions/targets.man
+ 	${AM_VERBOSE_GEN} sed \
+ 		-e '/@MATCH@/ r ../extensions/matches.man' \
+ 		-e '/@TARGET@/ r ../extensions/targets.man' $< >$@;