diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/tiptop/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/tiptop/default.nix
index c6870d2a4c44..bb9fa2859824 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/tiptop/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/tiptop/default.nix
@@ -9,11 +9,20 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "10j1138y3cj3hsmfz4w0bmk90523b0prqwi9nhb4z8xvjnf49i2i";
   };
 
-  patches = [(fetchpatch {
-    name = "reproducibility.patch";
-    url = "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tiptop/raw/debian/2.3.1-1/debian/patches/0001-fix-reproducibility-of-build-process.patch";
-    sha256 = "116l7n3nl9lj691i7j8x0d0za1i6zpqgghw5d70qfpb17c04cblp";
-  })];
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "reproducibility.patch";
+      url = "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tiptop/raw/debian/2.3.1-1/debian/patches/0001-fix-reproducibility-of-build-process.patch";
+      sha256 = "116l7n3nl9lj691i7j8x0d0za1i6zpqgghw5d70qfpb17c04cblp";
+    })
+
+    # Pull upstream patch for ncurses-6.3
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "ncurses-6.3.patch";
+      url = "https://gitlab.inria.fr/rohou/tiptop/-/commit/a78234c27fdd62fed09430d998950e49e11a1832.patch";
+      sha256 = "1k55agdri7iw3gwm4snj3ps62qzmxlqr6s0868l8qamjw38z9g00";
+    })
+  ];
 
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace ./configure --replace -lcurses -lncurses