diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 3c0fc312e..32de69eb9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #1818: `sphinx.ext.todo` directive generates broken html class attribute as
   'admonition-' when :confval:`language` is specified with non-ASCII linguistic area like
   'ru' or 'ja'. To fix this, now ``todo`` directive can use ```:class:`` option.
+* #2140: Fix footnotes in table has broken in LaTeX
 
 Release 1.3.1 (released Mar 17, 2015)
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diff --git a/sphinx/writers/latex.py b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
index c88b37395..5ec86019f 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/latex.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
@@ -1555,7 +1555,10 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
         # if a footnote has been inserted once, it shouldn't be repeated
         # by the next reference
         if used:
-            self.body.append('\\footnotemark[%s]' % num)
+            if self.table:
+                self.body.append('\\protect\\footnotemark[%s]' % num)
+            else:
+                self.body.append('\\footnotemark[%s]' % num)
         elif self.table:
             self.footnotestack[-1][num][1] = True
             self.body.append('\\protect\\footnotemark[%s]' % num)