diff --git a/0001-coverity-173065-Resource-leak.patch b/0001-coverity-173065-Resource-leak.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aedec7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-coverity-173065-Resource-leak.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+From 47ed203d1f58157a8e8c5cce51bfa2094018f847 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Caol=C3=A1n=20McNamara?= <caolanm@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:24:58 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] coverity#173065 Resource leak
+
+---
+ src/tools/hunspell.cxx | 14 +++++++-------
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/tools/hunspell.cxx b/src/tools/hunspell.cxx
+index 6345cad..3a037b3 100644
+--- a/src/tools/hunspell.cxx
++++ b/src/tools/hunspell.cxx
+@@ -1131,19 +1131,19 @@ void dialogscreen(TextParser* parser,
+ 
+   // handle long lines and tabulators
+   std::string lines[MAXPREVLINE];
+-  std::string pPrevLine;
++  std::string prevLine;
+   for (int i = 0; i < MAXPREVLINE; i++) {
+-    pPrevLine = parser->get_prevline(i);
+-    expand_tab(lines[i], chenc(pPrevLine, io_enc, ui_enc));
++    prevLine = parser->get_prevline(i);
++    expand_tab(lines[i], chenc(prevLine, io_enc, ui_enc));
+   }
+ 
+-  pPrevLine = parser->get_prevline(0);
+-  std::string line = pPrevLine.substr(0, parser->get_tokenpos());
++  prevLine = parser->get_prevline(0);
++  std::string line = prevLine.substr(0, parser->get_tokenpos());
+   std::string line2;
+   int tokenbeg = expand_tab(line2, chenc(line, io_enc, ui_enc));
+ 
+-  pPrevLine = mystrdup(parser->get_prevline(0).c_str());
+-  line = pPrevLine.substr(0, parser->get_tokenpos() + token.size());
++  prevLine = parser->get_prevline(0);
++  line = prevLine.substr(0, parser->get_tokenpos() + token.size());
+   int tokenend = expand_tab(line2, chenc(line, io_enc, ui_enc));
+ 
+   int rowindex = (tokenend - 1) / x;
+-- 
+2.9.3
+
diff --git a/hunspell.spec b/hunspell.spec
index 2d25026..9b00e23 100644
--- a/hunspell.spec
+++ b/hunspell.spec
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ BuildRequires: words
 %endif
 Requires:  hunspell-en-US
 
+Patch0: 0001-coverity-173065-Resource-leak.patch
+
 %description
 Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program 
 designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or 
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ Includes and definitions for developing with hunspell
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .cid173065
 
 %build
 configureflags="--disable-rpath --disable-static --with-ui --with-readline"
@@ -122,7 +125,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_mandir}/man5/hunspell.5.gz
 
 %changelog
-* Wed Dec 07 2016 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.5.4-1
+* Tue Dec 13 2016 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.5.4-1
 - latest release
 
 * Tue May 03 2016 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1