diff --git a/projects/qemu/Dockerfile b/projects/qemu/Dockerfile
index 4ad57b976..baf4d470e 100644
--- a/projects/qemu/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/qemu/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@
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 FROM gcr.io/oss-fuzz-base/base-builder
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool libglib2.0-dev libfdt-dev libpixman-1-dev zlib1g-dev patchelf
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool \
+    libglib2.0-dev libfdt-dev libpixman-1-dev zlib1g-dev patchelf wget
+# Ninja in the apt repos is too old. Get it directly from github
+RUN wget https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/latest/download/ninja-linux.zip \
+    && unzip ninja-linux.zip \
+    && rm ninja-linux.zip \
+    && mv ninja /usr/bin/ninja
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git qemu
 WORKDIR qemu
 RUN cp scripts/oss-fuzz/build.sh $SRC