diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe/0001-Fix-assign-to-stdin-use-freopen-instead-issue.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe/0001-Fix-assign-to-stdin-use-freopen-instead-issue.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53c9edd6db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe/0001-Fix-assign-to-stdin-use-freopen-instead-issue.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 0be9f4f2b7c4202b183f65aa65ecfd32f565385d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Joe Allen <jhallenworld@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 09:34:34 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix assign to stdin, use freopen instead issue
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [0be9f4f2b7c4202b183f65aa65ecfd32f565385d]
+Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09@gmail.com>
+
+---
+ joe/main.c | 5 ++++-
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/joe/main.c b/joe/main.c
+index bfbfb90711e8..61f0324ee094 100644
+--- a/joe/main.c
++++ b/joe/main.c
+@@ -755,7 +755,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **real_argv, const char * const *envv)
+ 			/* Close stdin, so that if user kills the copying the program feeding stdin sees a SIGPIPE */
+ 			/* It won't if there are any extra file descriptors open */
+ 			fclose(stdin);
+-			stdin = fopen("/dev/tty", "rb");
++			if (!freopen("/dev/tty", "rb", stdin))
++			{
++				/* This should not fail */
++			}
+ 		}
+ 	}
+ 
+-- 
+2.51.0
+
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.8.bb
index 77ffc14517..7b901e1e3b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.8.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
-SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/joe-editor/joe-${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = " \
+    ${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/joe-editor/joe-${PV}.tar.gz \
+    file://0001-Fix-assign-to-stdin-use-freopen-instead-issue.patch \
+"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "curses"
 PACKAGECONFIG[curses] = "--enable-curses,--disable-curses,ncurses,ncurses-terminfo"