diff --git a/sockstat/10_fix-CHAR-BIT-missing.patch b/sockstat/10_fix-CHAR-BIT-missing.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09bfeda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sockstat/10_fix-CHAR-BIT-missing.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Description: add a necessary header. (Closes: #518851)
+Author: peter green <plugwash@p10link.net>
+Last-Update: 2009-04-05
+Index: sockstat-0.3/sockstat.c
+===================================================================
+--- a/sockstat.c	2009-06-04 11:34:59.051534157 +0800
++++ b/sockstat.c	2009-06-04 11:35:27.283531833 +0800
+@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
+ #include <pwd.h>
+ #include <grp.h>
+ #include <assert.h>
++#include <limits.h>
+ 
+ #define SEARCH_ALL     0x00
+ #define SEARCH_GID     0x01
diff --git a/sockstat/20_add-GCC-hardening.patch b/sockstat/20_add-GCC-hardening.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff684b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sockstat/20_add-GCC-hardening.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Description: add GCC hardening.
+Author: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2016-12-30
+Index: sockstat-0.3/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SRCS = sockstat.c
+ OBJS = ${SRCS:.c=.o}
+ 
+ sockstat: ${OBJS}
+-	cc -o $@ ${OBJS}
++	cc -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) ${OBJS}
+ 
+ install:
+ 	install -m 755 -c sockstat ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin
diff --git a/sockstat/30_add_err-headers.patch b/sockstat/30_add_err-headers.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7710a21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sockstat/30_add_err-headers.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Add missing error headers
+by Pekka Helenius, 2018
+
+--- a/sockstat.c	2008-06-01 04:52:39.000000000 +0300
++++ b/sockstat.c	2018-10-02 23:29:16.872336139 +0300
+@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
+ #include <dirent.h>
+ #include <ctype.h>
+ #include <errno.h>
++#include <err.h>
+ #include <pwd.h>
+ #include <grp.h>
+ #include <assert.h>